Dad believed people were like money.
But that′s not easy when your father is abusive, your brother can′t hold a job, and your mother scrubs the house as if she.
He wants to be a vato firme, the kind of guy people respect.
Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny.
To my dad, we were pennies.
Below that, everybody was just nickels and dimes.
You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person -- even a ten-, five-, or one-dollar person.
Dad believed people were like money