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Since he was a child, Tomás Q. Morín has counted. He has calculated the seconds between breaths, the number of telephone poles on a given street, and, once, even “the soft-blue stripes of a man’s shirt.” The mental tallying was a strategy for dealing with the traumatic situations of his youth. At age four or five, he witnessed his father shooting heroin. “I was impressed the first time I watched him cooking,” Morín writes in his debut memoir, Let Me Count the Ways, which hit bookstores in March. “Who knew a spoon and a bit of cotton was all anyone needed to make some magic happen?” He was still a child when he became a caretaker for his father, who oscillated for years between withdrawal…
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