... and milking cows. 2) To the Esquibel family, being Roman Catholic essentially defined the make up of the family character. Religion was very much apart of the make up of the rural New Mexico life. Fran's father introduced his in laws to the Mexican Catholicism that had not been apart of ... which she loathed. Her housing situation is cramp and over crowded. 4) Because in California her parents Mexican identity represented a poor existence for her, in New Mexico she was apart of a unique way of life although it was rural. She began to feel somewhat "ashamed" that her parents were from .....

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