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me. Every once in a while
somebody’ll
say,
“Well
Calderon, this is the year. I’m
going to run against you.”
And I tell them, “You don’t
have to.” They say, “Why?”
And I say, “Cuz I’ll give it
to you!”
And then I guess it works,
because they decide not to run
against me. They say, “There
must be something to this, if
he wants to give it away.”
Viola: It’s a small town, and
people think the mayor
doesn’t do anything, but he’s
so involved with grants right
now. It’s very time consuming.
Chuy: There’s no such thing
as being bored here.
Viola: He and I are never
bored.
Chuy: She helps me a lot
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with the city work right now.
We have a program going on.
We’re working on our infra-
structure. It maybe will attract
more people over here. Some
kind of industry, some kind
of economic development,
where there’ll be jobs. I think
nowadays most of the high-
school kids would stay here, if
there was something for them
to do. But, unfortunately,
there’s not very much.
Viola: … so eventually they
move. But this man here, he
keeps working at it.
Chuy: Something’s got to
give one of these days.
Something’s got to happen.
Viola: Some of our friends
that have left, they’ll say,
“What are you still doing in
Valentine?” And I say, “Well,
we’re making a living. You
know, we don’t have to worry
about everything you all
worry about in the city.” We
go to the city, and they’re not
doing anything different than
we are. They’re working and
then coming home, except we
come home to peace and
quiet, and they don’t.
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Chuy: You don’t worry
about very many things out
here. We can go to El Paso
and leave our doors open and
our dogs outside. And
we come back and find
everything the way it was. We
sleep good at night.
We’ve
enjoyed
living here very
much. We don’t
want this little
town to die.
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