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Jaramillo outlived her husband and all of their children. Though the couple had three children together, only one – Angelina – survived infancy. In 1920, Venceslao died, leaving
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They did so against the overwhelming dominance of Anglo culture and language, and against the patriarchal norms of their own culture. Their narratives are valuable not only because they preserve accounts of folk life but also because, in particular, they recorded the details women considered
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in their home. Jaramillo later wrote of the incident, "Destiny, still not satisfied, seemed bent on crushing me down to the very last of my endurance."
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