Would you like to take a drive to La Pequeñita today, Mom?  “I would LOVE it!”  And off we drove to the Latin food import store on State Street in Salt Lake City.  On the freeway, her head turned this way and that from side to side, marveling at the seemingly new sights of the city she has lived in for all but 4 of her 86 years.  “Would you look at that!” she remarked about a semi loaded with used cars.  “Look at all those cars!  I’ve never seen anything like that!”  Surely you’ve seen a car carrier before, Mom.   “But not with THAT many cars on it.”  After purchasing our Brazilian bom-bom candies and our Antártica guaraná soda and our manioc puffs (she also threw in a bag of dried white lima beans), we shuffled to our car.  “Where do you suppose that little road in back of the store goes?”  Well, I guess we had better find out.  I drove into the dingy alley, which very quickly emptied onto a sub-collector.  “Well, what do you know?  Amazing!”

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