Bless Me, Ultima Page #4

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my blessings, hmm?

Vitamin Kid!

Who?

Your classroom's

over there!

Good morning!

Como te llamas?

Antonio Marez.

My mother said

to send you her blessings.

Hmm.

"Antonio Marez."

You wanna learn to write?

Good, come in.

Let's put you next to Melissa.

Melissa,

this is Antonio.

Up!

Attention, class,

it's lunchtime.

You'll obey Marisol

until I return.

This is cardo lechero,

good for cleansing the liver.

We have some

in the house.

Ah, mira, this...

This is marrubio

for when

you have a cold.

You can make candy

with that.

Antonio!

Antonio!

Andrew! Leon! Eugene!

Mama!

Hola! Hola, Papa!

So, tell me

all about California.

Well, we were only there

a few months, Papa.

Tell us about the war!

It was all right.

Like heck, it was!

Eugene, shame!

In front of La Grande!

Did you see

all the vineyards, huh?

Ay, Dios mio.

It was so hard without you.

It'll be all right now,

Mama.

Hjole! You know,

I would give anything to move

to California right now!

Gabriel...

They've just returned.

Ay, mi amor,

I don't mean tonight.

Mis hijos.

Do you get to punch

the buttons on the, um...

Cash register?

Yeah.

That'll come later.

For now I work

mostly in the back.

Gotten any faster?

Think you could beat me?

Race you across!

It's him, the Vitamin Kid!

Let's go!

Ah, who the heck

was that?

The Vitamin Kid.

Nobody could beat him.

Some day you'll beat him,

Tony. Some day.

See you after work.

What is sin, anyway?

It's not doing

the will of God.

Is it a sin to do this?

Yes.

Why?

It's a bad sign.

But nothing happens

when I do it.

You will be punished.

When?

When you die.

What if I go

to confession?

Then your sins

are forgiven,

your soul is clean

and you're saved.

You mean I can

go out and sin,

throw the finger,

say bad words,

steal, do a million

bad things,

and when

I'm about to die,

just go to confession

and I go to heaven?

Yes, if you're

sorry you sinned.

Hey, Tony,

you missed a fight.

That was a real

good tackle, Horse.

Now let me up.

Did you see the fight?

It was funny when Willie

peed on Roque's shoes.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, how come Willie

and those farmer kids

don't have to go

to catechism?

'Cause they'd miss

the bus, stupid!

Protestants don't

have to go either.

They go to Hell!

No, they don't!

You're going to

Hell too, Florence.

You don't believe

in God.

If you don't believe in God,

there's no Hell to go to.

Hey, let's go

tease the girls.

Why don't you

believe in God?

I don't know.

My mother died when I was three.

My father drinks

himself to death,

and my sisters are

floozies working at Rosie's.

The old man hasn't been

very good to me.

You mean God?

So why do you

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