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Tijuana Gringo

Saturndaeg, 3 March 2001.

"Bendita Tijuana," the gringo says, trying to make a joke outside the inauguration of Gili's sculpture exhibit, "tan lejos del D.F. y tan cerca a Los Angeles."

His two companions laugh. He hopes it wasn't just the gallery wine. The sculptures, anyway, were better.

"You know Los Angeles?" someone asked the gringo on another day, on a sidewalk near the border.

"Sí," he admitted.

"Do you know can I get there?"

"Take a bus. From the border." He smiled at his interlocutor. Creo que esta palabra también existe en español -- pensó el gringo.

"Pues eso es el problema," said the man... and paused, looking around quickly for what... "can you help me get across la linea?"

Gringo swallowed. No conspiracy to break the border. No smuggling of illegal ET was done worth the blessing of just helping someone. "No," he said, "No puedo. Forgive me."

"Sí," sighed the other.


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