Nobody Likes Carlos

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

This is Carlos. This morning Carlos woke up and went to the kitchen to have a little breakfast of government cheese and corn tortillas. Usually he likes to stir up a glass of powdered milk to wash it down with, but this morning there wasn’t any – so he had water. Carlos has a sad little life, but that doesn’t matter to anyone because nobody likes Carlos. Nobody knows why they don’t like Carlos, they just don’t.

Often Carlos wishes he had friends like the other children. But he doesn’t have any friends because nobody likes him. His mommy doesn’t like him. That’s why she sent him to live with her sister in East Dingly so she could move back to Guatemala with Uncle Edgar and take up dancing again. Nobody likes Carlos, not even his hamster, who disliked Carlos so much he died.

Do you like Carlos? Neither do I.

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