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In the story "Nilda" by Diaz the relationship between Nilda and the narrator is a unique friendship. Although it seemed that the narrator always wanted more from Nilda than just friendship, the feeling wasnt mutal. Throughout the text Nilda is described as trashy and is also in a relationship with the narrators brother, who eventually dies from cancer. Nilda and the narrator grow apart and their friendship eventually diminishes. The last the narrator sees of Nilda is when they are both doing laundry and at the end of the story the narrator says that they dont know where she went.

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