I do not own the rights to this essay it is one of my favorite and I know it by heart I first heard of deserado when I was 18 my Aunt Denise Duncan Lacy who used to be a newscaster for channel 10 news here in New York came to visit me one day all the way from New York I was living in Maryland at the time she bought me a gift it was a small tiny book marker and on the book wild girl what's does arado and I read it it was so beautiful and I memorized it