Pedro worked as a Night Manager in a cheap flea pit of a hotel, in New York City. He lived with his mom and cousin Ava, and her three teenage boys, by three different Latino fathers. His mom worked as a cleaner in a Chinese restaurant. Ava was an exotic dancer in a sex club. Her three boys all went to school, as all good American citizens do. Rufo came in one night to shoot the breeze. Rufo was from Colombia, but pretended he was a failed painter from Puerto Rico. He fooled nobody. His big news, there was a charity concert being held in a local warehouse, and it had some of the top Latino superstars performing. He laid down the names of the artists, and Pedro was impressed. But when he heard the price of the tickets, he thought, no way. $35 was way out of their league. Rufo was known as, The Fixer, and said he could get 6 tickets for $70. When Pedro told his mom, she said, “Hell yea son. Buy the tickets. Give him the $70 and we can all go.” So, he paid, and on the day of the concer...
