[00:00.00]Unit 6 Design

[00:06.25]Lesson 4 Dream Houses

[00:10.28]The house on Mango Street

[00:13.75]We didn't always live on Mango Street

[00:16.74]Before that we lived on Loomis

[00:18.74]on the third floor

[00:20.34]and before that we lived on Keeler

[00:23.08]Before Keeler it was Paulina,

[00:25.82]and before that I can't remember

[00:28.53]But what I remember most is moving a lot

[00:31.95]Each time it seemed there'd be one more of us

[00:35.06]By the time we got to Mango Street

[00:37.34]we were six-Mama,Papa,Carlos,Kiki,

[00:41.26]my sister Nenny and me

[00:44.40]The house on Mango Street is ours,

[00:46.66]and we don't have to pay rent to anybody,

[00:49.10]or share the yard with the people downstairs,

[00:51.84]or be careful not to make too much noise,

[00:54.69]and worried about the landlord being angry

[00:57.53]But even so,it's not the house

[01:00.04]we thought we'd get

[01:02.18]We had to leave the flat on Loomis quick.

[01:05.99]The water pipes broke,

[01:07.52]and the landlord wouldn't fix them

[01:09.37]because the house was too old

[01:11.63]We had to leave fast.

[01:14.21]We were using the washroom next door,

[01:16.53]and carrying water over in empty milk gallons*.

[01:19.94]That's why Mama and Papa looked for a house,

[01:22.92]and that's why we moved into the house

[01:24.92]on Mango Street,far away,

[01:26.99]on the other side of town

[01:30.05]They always told us that one day

[01:31.95]we would move into a house,a real house

[01:34.84]that would be ours

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