Though it’s been official for a few weeks now, today we got our new cédulas (ID cards) as legal citizens of Uruguay. Look at the expiration date (“Vence”) and eat your hearts out, fellow UY immigrants! To those not in the know, “E.E.U.U.” means Estados Unidos: United States. I blurred out my birth state so you wouldn’t know I was born in Connecticut.
But it gets better. My wife, being of a certain age, got one that says Sin Vencimiento — No Expiration. After a certain age, they issue your cédula for life. The trilingual kid from the attorney’s office who went with us said, Oh no, they’ve made a mistake! We have to get them to change it! Which, of course, to one of a certain age, being perceived as not of a certain age by a 20-something, made him a very cool trilingual kid indeed. More so with his second language being Hebrew, which my wife studied years ago, stories of which she shares in her captivating and highly recommended (by a totally impartial source, of course, of course) memoir The Lullaby Illusion.
I´d read that. In fact, I did!