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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Maribel, Mayor, Alma entitled The Book of Unknown Americans.
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conversations.value: The Book of Unknown Americans: Alma Rivera, her husband Arturo, and daughter, Maribel, emigrate from Pátzcuaro to Delaware on a visa Arturo obtained through work.\nThough the couple had a rich life in Mexico, they emigrated in order to send their daughter Maribel to a special needs school after she sustained a head injury.\nThe family find it difficult to adjust as they know no English and Arturo's work picking mushrooms, which was the only work he could obtain legally, is monotonous and degrading.\nTheir lives become easier when they meet the Toro family, who occupies the same tenement building as they do.\nThe Toro parents are immigrants from Panama who have become legal citizens but struggle to get by on one meager income.\nCelia Toro and Alma Rivera become fast friends.\nMeanwhile, Mayor Toro develops a crush on Maribel and, after Garett Miller, a boy at Mayor's school, accosted her and tried to take her blouse off but was stopped by her mother, Mayor becomes protective of her.\nHer mother goes to the police by they thought it was just teenagers being teenagers.\nShe was very worried but didn't tell her husband.\nArturo eventually loses his job and, unable to find a new one, he and his family lose their visas.\nMeanwhile, after Alma is informed by a neighbour that Mayor and Maribel were alone together kissing in a car, she bans Mayor from seeing her daughter.\nIn March, after the first snowfall of the year, Mayor steals his father's car and goes to Maribel's school to get her to cut class.\nThe two go to the beach.\nAlma, panicking when her daughter does not come home from school, finally tells her husband about Garett Miller assaulting their daughter, believing he has injured her.\nWhen Mayor and Maribel return home they learn that Arturo has been shot by Garett's father.\nHe dies at the hospital and Alma decides to return home to Mexico shortly after.\nAs a final gesture of friendship Celia and her other neighbours donate the money Maribel needs to transport Arturo's body back to Mexico.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Book of Unknown Americans
  Back then, all we wanted was the simplest things: to eat good food, to sleep at night, to smile, to laugh, to be well. We felt it was our right, as much as it was anyone's, to have those things. Of course, when I think about it now, I see that I was naïve. I was blinded by the swell of hope and the promise of possibility. I assumed that everything that would go wrong in our lives already had.
  THIRTY HOURS AFTER crossing the border, we arrived, the three of us in the backseat of a red pickup truck that smelled of cigarette smoke and gasoline.
  It was just after sunset and darkness bled in from the outer reaches of the sky. A few minutes earlier, we'd been on a busy road, driving through four-way intersections, past strip malls and fast-food restaurants, but as we neared the apartment building, all of that had given way. The last thing I saw before we turned onto the long gravel lane that led to the parking lot was an abandoned auto body shop, its hand-painted sign on the ground, propped up against the gray stucco facade.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me two more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: We rode the bus to midnight Mass with the Riveras, although Enrique sat all the way in the back, plugged in to his iPod, so it was basically like he wasn't even there. The bus driver tuned the radio to the all-Christmas-music station, and when "Feliz Navidad" came on, I guess since we were the only people on the bus, he raised the volume and shouted back at us, "Here you go! A little piece of home for you!"
  Under his breath, my dad said, "Every year the same thing. If it's in Spanish, it's a piece of home. Well, I never heard this song until I came to the United States."
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conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
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conversations.value: The bus driver tuned the radio to the all-Christmas-music station, and when "Feliz Navidad" came on, I guess since we were the only people on the bus, he raised the volume and shouted back at us, "Here you go! A little piece of home for you!"
  Under his breath, my dad said, "Every year the same thing. If it's in Spanish, it's a piece of home. Well, I never heard this song until I came to the United States."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'It took us a long time to be able to come'.
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conversations.value: It took us a long time to be able to come. We applied and waited to be approved. We traveled for days. We left a lot of things behind—not only physical objects, but our friends and of course our families, pieces of ourselves—all for the chance to see that light in Maribel's eyes. It's been difficult, yes, but I would do it all again. People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.
  I'm overcome when I think about this place and about what it's given us. Maribel is getting stronger. I can see it. Every day a little bit more. A safe area to live. Such good friends. It's incredible. One day when we go back to México and people ask me what it was like here, I will tell them those things. I will tell them all the ways I loved this country.
  Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury, one that casts doubt on whether she'll ever be the same. And so, leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel can get better.
  When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar Tree store, it is love at first sight. It's also the beginning of a friendship between the Rivera and Toro families, whose web of guilt and love and responsibility is at this novel's core.
  Woven into their stories are the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America. Their journeys and their voices will inspire you, surprise you, and break your heart.