I did the only thing I could do. I hit him with my closed fist as hard as I could.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

I just got good at it, because I knew I had to hurry because I was supposed to die."

VOA: special.2009.09.16

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Deep in my heart I hated him, but I never said or did anything that showed him how I really felt.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

"I thought it was great. I'd been waiting for it to come out, so I was really excited.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

"If I felt that I could have been increasingly effective in that job, I suppose I would have continued to do it.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

"I want a grandchild.I'll be seventy in July, and I just -- whether they get married or not, I want a grandchild."

VOA: special.2011.05.23

I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and felt sorry for him, although I laughed to myself.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"No,I didn't. I was in my last year and then, I got pregnant and I got lazy."

VOA: special.2010.05.13

"I mean,I travel all over the world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards from them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

I wouldn't have aspired to that. I mean,I had no degree. I wasn't qualified,I thought.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

I'll take you anywhere in the city." "I want to go to eight-sixty-one Jasmine Street." I said, and I started to climb into the carriage.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

"Oh,I'm right,am I? Well,I'm not right.I'm wrong. I just said that to test you.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

"My whole life,I'm like, I'm Mexican and I'm really -- I'm a proud Mexican-American and I swear I was an Aztec princess in my past life.

VOA: special.2010.09.13