The Dispossessed

"When I tried to get the little flower out of the ground Š it was so deep-rooted. I didn't realize how deep-rooted it was," she says, squinting in the direct light of the sun.

"That's how we feel. We have deep roots. When these people asked us to move, they took those deep roots we had to our home. To us, it's not a piece of property. It's our life."

Deron Neblett

Pedro Morín, behind the gate of his home, finds it ironic that he supported the HISD bond election

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She recalls thinking she had been too rough when she dug up the daisy, so she feared it was going to be dead when she checked on it the next day. "My heart was like a little bird. The plant was perky! I said, 'It's going to live!' " she exclaims.

Pedro cuts in to her story. "I told her, 'We're like that plant. We're not going to die.' "

E-mail John Suval at john.suval@houstonpress.com.