We didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that
we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we
lived on Keeler. Before Keeler it was Paulina, and before
that I can’t remember. But what I remember most is mov-
ing a lot. Each time it seemed there’d be one more of us.
by the time we got to Mango Street we were six—Mama,
Papa, Carlos, Kiki, my sister Nenny and me.
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