Mornings, Luz learned from Spanish schoolbooks. Afternoons, she studied dressmaking, drawing, and baking bread,
not the corn tortillas of her people. Luz excelled and won many prizes, and her voice sparkled as she told Nahua stories in secret to other children. If the students spoke Nahuatl instead of Spanish, the teachers punished them. They had to give up their Nahua clothes, wear modern ones like in the cities. The budding flower in Luz’s heart might have withered. But it did not.
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