Chapter 3
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Rasiel Suarez. That was the ingeniously innovative name I was christened with despite there already being two other Rasiels in the family. Never-you-mind, I was anyhow born on March 3, 1969 -- another date with a mysterious combination of multiples of three's...
My sister Seven was born in January 1971. Now four of us, the already stretched family budget evidently strained further. The store, though more stable than when first opened, was still not free from its struggles. Crime weighed heavily on my parents' minds and the weather bothered my tropic-loving Dad.