The Summer of Water

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1. The first thing he saw when he arrived was La Ria. The river, the river, I didn’t know whether to tell him “Look, this is the river” – a more universal, more useful, less local word – or to say “Look, this is the river” – the one we all say here – and to explain to him that river is sweet, that ria salt, that ria is almost sea. I told him the two, explanation included. At that time, I didn’t know how much Spanish that 9-year-old girl who had …