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Enrique stays in the US because he wants to be with his mother and little sister.But the dilemma of that is, he has his girlfriend Maria Isabel and his daughter Jasmin back in Honduras.”She feels the same warmth and love from Enrique when he first arrived on her doorstep in North Carolina.He always wanted to be with me”(Nazario 235).Enrique wants to stay with his mother because he wanted to know if his mother still loved him, which she does love him very much.He always thought that his mother left him and his older sister Belky because she didn’t want them but,when when he came to North Carolina ,Lourdes was ecstatic that Enrique was there with her after many years of being separated.”Enrique senses that his daughter has begun to identify someone

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