Illegal
“They cruised around a residential neighborhood of bungalows painted in bright blues, greens, and yellows. Every block seemed to have several one-story houses with naked rebar sticking straight up through the outside walls, awaiting the money to complete a second floor. Sagging bags of cement and piles of sand looked as if they'd been there for years. Ancient cars were propped on cinder blocks in side yards, bright shirts hanging limp on clotheslines.
"What's with all the Virgin Mary statues in ...the front yards?" Payne asked.
"Only a gabacho from Beverly Hills would ask such a stupid question." "I'm a gabacho from Van Nuys." "A long time ago, some religious dude saw the Virgin Mary walking on a hill." "The Virgin of Guadalupe?" "Exactamente." "So why paint her on the hubcaps of an '83 Plymouth?" "Just drive, vato. Look for the bullring shaped like a flying saucer." Music poured from open windows. Dogs roamed the streets and chickens squawked in fenced-in yards. Kids pranced under a spraying garden hose.MoreLess
"What's with all the Virgin Mary statues in ...the front yards?" Payne asked.
"Only a gabacho from Beverly Hills would ask such a stupid question." "I'm a gabacho from Van Nuys." "A long time ago, some religious dude saw the Virgin Mary walking on a hill." "The Virgin of Guadalupe?" "Exactamente." "So why paint her on the hubcaps of an '83 Plymouth?" "Just drive, vato. Look for the bullring shaped like a flying saucer." Music poured from open windows. Dogs roamed the streets and chickens squawked in fenced-in yards. Kids pranced under a spraying garden hose.MoreLess
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