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" 1. You ate rice and beans, all day every day. Whether it was chuletas, chicharrones de pollo, carne guisada, or bistec encebollao, chances are that the side dish was rice and beans. Sometimes, you&amp;#039;d switch up the type of beans, like red kidney beans, black beans, white navy beans, garbanzos, or habas. 2. You were told to wear shoes or the gusanos will get you. Every Puerto Rican kid who has walked around barefoot has heard his or her mom shouting, &amp;quot;Vas a coger gusanos (hookworms)!&amp;quot; 3. Your home was decorated with vejigante masks. Many Puerto Rican households are decorated with colorful masks of these folkloric characters, typically crafted by artisans using materials such as papier m\u00E2ch\u00E9 and hollowed-out coconuts. 4. The Miss Universe pageant was as prestigious as the Academy Awards. Perhaps because so many Miss Universes have hailed from La Isla del Encanto (Marisol Malaret, Deborah Carthy Deu, and Dayanara Torres among them). 5. You grew up afraid of Tuesday the 13th, not Friday. In Puerto Rico, Tuesday the 13th is the jinxed day. There&amp;#039;s even a saying that goes, &amp;quot;Martes 13, ni te cases, ni te embarques, ni de tu familia te apartes,&amp;quot; which loosely translates to, &amp;quot;On Tuesday the 13th, don&amp;#039;t get married, don&amp;#039;t board a plane or boat, and don&amp;#039;t separate from your family.&amp;quot; 6. There was plastic on every piece of furniture in your home. 7. Whenever you feel bad about something or someone, you always say &amp;quot;ay, bendito.&amp;quot; Or just &amp;quot;dito.&amp;quot; 8. You use the word &amp;quot;china&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;naranja&amp;quot; for orange. 9. Learning how to make pasteles/sofrito/pastelitos from scratch is a rite of passage. If you don&amp;#039;t know how, there&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;something wrong with you.&amp;quot; 10. Your house always smelled like one or all of the above. 11. There were always flags, coquis, and pavas hanging around your house. The same goes for musical instruments like a guiro, cuatro or pandareta. 12. The can of Caf\u00E9 Bustelo on your stove was filled with flavorful cooking oil instead of actual coffee. Your abuela argued that used cooking oil brought more sabor to those deep-fried foods. 13. Learning how to dance salsa is a right of passage. Again, if you don&amp;#039;t know how, &amp;quot;something&amp;#039;s wrong with you.&amp;quot; 14. You grew up calling earrings pantallas. 15. You had pernil at every special occasion. Thanksgiving, birthday parties, Christmas, etc. 16. You will never let anyone talk smack about J.Lo. Just don&amp;#039;t even try it. 17. The words wepa, compay, and cheverre are part of your everyday vocabulary.  18. Your mom always jammed out to these amazing Boricua musicians: La India, Frankie Ruiz, Tito Rojas, Hector Lavoe, Marc Anthony and El Gran Combo. 19. Walter Mercado is the only astrologer you trust.  20. Big Pun&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;100%&amp;quot; still gets you hyped.  Related: 22 Signs You Grew Up Latino 28 Signs You Grew Up Mexican  27 Signs You Grew Up Cuban  20 Signs You Grew Up Dominican Photo Credit: Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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