After dinner Jessejo Magallon sweeps up while his partner Veronica Sandez puts dinner items out of reach of the incoming nocturnal rat population. Clothes are folded or hung on lines hung between tent supports and the bamboo that allows the small community privacy. Everyone settles in, Carlos Urbano focusing on his rusted metals that he believes are gold, his mother Elizabeth Urbano cautious not to eat too soon before bed with concern of the rats picking her teeth in her sleep and Daniel Velasquez secluding himself to his tent with his self-described “black heart” destroyed by a love. Magallon leaves a Spanish radio station playing within mild earshot of all.
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