My Name In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. I like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he i shaving, songs like sobbing t was my great-
grandmother's name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the which is supposed to be bad luck if you're born female but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their Women strong.