Anita

That was the first time I experienced seeing the banker.

The Mexican side of the family is, I feel in touch with the spiritual world.

And it's fairly normal to speak to your ancestors and for sometimes for them to speak back to you.

And that's a very positive thing, you know.

But if it's a stranger, if it's someone not in your family, then it's less clear what to do about it.

He came in with this golden bucket that has sort of a scepter looking thing that's in it.

And it's full of holy water.

And it has a wand at the end.

And he would pull this wand out of the bucket and start flinging the wand into the different corners of the room and praying.

And so my mom would often go in there to watch shows.

She likes telenovelas and movies.

And so when I came home, I said, why don't we create a nice space for you here?

The wallpaper's falling down.

The carpet's pretty gross.

It's not in a good shape.

So we decided to renovate my brother's room.

and moved all the furniture out of the room, tore off all the wallpaper, tore up all the carpeting, whitewashed everything.

We moved everything back in and, you know, my mother really, really loved it.

That was the room.

That was the precious room.