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Famous All Over Town
Danny Santiago
Copyright of 1983

A story of Donny’s struggles of growing up in Barrio. Famous all over town is about a young high school boy named Rudy Medina. He grows up in a Latin, Chicano town called Barrio. He tells us his life and all the struggles he has to face everyday of his life .The family he had was not the perfect family; the mother was having another child that she would then not take care of because she cared more about herself. Lena was a high school drop out who wanted to be free and on her own, the father was a hard worker who tried to give his family everything, and Rudy was the outcast that never quite fit in.
With his mother being pregnant and his sister and father always working, Rudy never really had anyone to talk to. Until that one day when he couldn’t take the pain he was feeling in his stomach while his mother was giving labor in the other room. Luckily their was a medic there to loom at him. Then the room went black. Rudy woke up in a hospital bed, and then Dr. Penrose walked in and told Rudy he had a ruptured appendix and was lucky they got to him when they did or else he could have died.
When released from the hospital Rudy went home to a totally different family, the sister made her room into Rudy’s new room just for him, the father was actually trying to talk to him like he actually cared and the mother was actually happy to see him and she was taking care of her new born.
Then as soon as everything was good it went bad. The mother took a trip to visit her mother and just decided to never come back; she abandoned her family and her live in Barrio. Then the father got a new girlfriend and moved in with her. Lena got a boyfriend named Armando and moved in together in a tiny little house. While Rudy was up too no good and they didn’t know what to do with me, until they decided he would live with Lena, it was all good until it turned south.
Famous all over town was a very inspiring and

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