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Are you ltalian...
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Mexican, or Spanish?
:24:05
That is all you have to say?
You want to know my nationality?
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Your name is DeMarco.
That's ltalian.
:24:12
You were brought up in Mexico,
and when you speak English...
:24:17
you speak it
with a Castilian accent.
:24:20
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My accent has been colored
by my many travels.
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Very well.
l will answer your question.
:24:28
I was raised in Mexico.
My father was born in Queens.
:24:32
His name was Tony DeMarco.
He was ltalian.
:24:35
The Dance King ofAstoria.
:24:37
Excuse me. Your father
was a dance king...
:24:41
here in New York City
in Astoria?
:24:44
:24:46
My father had come to Mexico...
:24:48
to work for
a pharmaceutical company.
:24:50
He had just gotten
offthe bus...
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and was walking
to a nearby hacienda...
:24:54
to inquire about
renting a room...
:24:56
when he first saw my mother.
:24:59
Both her parents were killed
by a sickness.
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My mother was younger
and stronger and survived.
:25:05
She took over their plantation.
:25:08
Sitting in the sunlight
on the veranda...
:25:11
with the bright rays
lighting her hair...
:25:13
she was a vision so beautiful...
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that atfirst my father
could not believe his eyes.
:25:20
lt was love atfirst sight.
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:25:59
They held each other
in the moonlight...