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    Mama Eu Quero
    Mama Eu Quero
    Mama Eu Quero
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    Mama Eu Quero

    By Richard Daybell

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    A young woman is plucked from the American Midwest and whisked into a wild and wicked Oz called Havana during the early days of the Cuban Revolution, there to find first love and Carmen Miranda.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Daybell
    Release dateMay 20, 2011
    ISBN9781465986634
    Mama Eu Quero
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    Richard Daybell

    Richard Daybell has been a writer/editor for most of his adult life, working at various times for a public library, a multinational corporation, a university, and state government. With his wife Linda, he also spent seven years as owner/chef of Churchill House Inn, a nine-room country inn in central Vermont.His short stories and short humor have appeared in regional, national and international commercial publications including American Way and Hemispheres, the inflight magazines for American Airlines and United Airlines, The New York Times, Buffalo Spree, Salt Lake City Magazine, and Tampa Tribune Fiction Quarterly as well as such literary magazines as Rosebud and Dandelion.Richard and Linda are now living in Lincoln, Vermont.

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      Mama Eu Quero - Richard Daybell

      Mama Eu Quero

      By Richard Daybell

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Richard Daybell

      The flickering image on the T-V screen – strong eyes, the familiar beard, the damn fatigue cap – stole Delia's attention from the book she had determined to finish this evening. And his voice – still defiant, but the words he uttered were words of defeat, stepping down. All these years, and your revolution will end with a whimper. I'm afraid it's getting old and wrinkled, Fidel. Like us.

      The face on the TV screen changed, metamorphosing into another image from the distant past that probably wasn’t really there. It was a gentler face with a mischievous smile and a great big nose, a face that forced both a smile and a tear as he cooed: Good night Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are. It was an odd association, these two faces, but for Delia, lasting and inevitable. Jimmy Durante disappeared into the darkness and Fidel was back.

      Delia didn't hate Fidel

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