... priest was my way of teaching the children what Ultima taught me as a curandera. My mother was not all successful in that I had become a priest, because imbedded within me, still, was my Marez blood. Unlike her, I respected my dad's love for the llano, and I myself enjoyed the llano and the feeling that overcame me whenever I visited the place. I moved away from my family after my high school years, but I came to visit them and both the llano and El Puerto every summer. Both the llano and El Puerto were a part of me and being a priest would not change that. After searching for the right college, I moved away from Guadalupe in order to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. After four years of devoted learning towards God, I was given the honorable title as a priest. I knew that the ...

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