Book Title: THE THINGS WE DIDN’T KNOW Character Name: Luis José Rodríguez How would you describe your family or your childhood? My family is from the mountains in Utuado, Puerto Rico. My father had a tobacco farm with animals and crops. We are five: Bartolo, Perfecta, me, Epifanio and Felipe. Our parents died many years ago, and Bartolo still lives in a small farm in Puerto Rico, but the rest came here to Woronoco to live and work here where I work at the paper mill in Woronoco, Massachusetts. We could no keep the farm no more. We cannot selling our crops. That’s why we are here, working at the paper company. What was your greatest talent? I like playing the guitar, singing and improvising aguinaldos at parrandas, our Christmas festivities. Significant other? Well, I tell you I used to have a wife. But she leaving me with these two children. She go back to Puerto Rico. Biggest challenge in relationships? My biggest problem with a woman now is finding one that will live here with me in Woronoco with me and my children. I have to working here, but woman no like it in Woronoco….

