The House of the Scorpion

CHAPTER 38

When everyone had been called to the wake on page 373, why didn’t Mr. Ortega attend? (Hint: Remember when he taught Matt how to play the piano…one of his senses is destroyed.)

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Mr. Ortega was missing because he hadn’t heard about it. Besides, he’d lived such a quiet existence for so many years that everyone had forgotten about him.

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