In 1985 Yunior becomes hopelessly infatuated with Miss Lora, an older woman who lives near him and teaches at a nearby school. He is sixteen. They begin a sexual relationship and later she becomes a teacher at his school. Yunior is bogged down in the grief of his brother’s death and unable to see the relationship for what it is.
“Miss Lora touched you, and you suddenly looked up and noticed how large her eyes were in her thin face, how long her lashes were, how one iris had more bronze in it than the other.”
First published in The New Yorker, 2012. Available here. Collected in This Is How You Lose Her, Penguin, 2012
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