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He sits slumped on a lumpy blue couch flanked by three of his brothers. In another room, Ruben's mother tends to his severely disabled baby brother. His father lies on a bed staring at a wall, depressed after failing to land a job on a nearby street corner as a day laborer. You just fill in the missing letters in these words. Ruben blinks at the page, then scrawls a few wobbly letters with a pencil he sharpened on a patch of exposed concrete in his bedroom floor.