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Constancia in the story Abuela Invents the Zero decides to ignore her grandmother because she doesn't care what happens to her Abuela. One of the reasons she doesn't care is because she has "seen her only three or four times in [her] entire life" (Ortiz-Cofer para 2). Constancia hasn't seen her Abuela that often, so she feels she doesn't have much reason to care about her. This causes her to ignore her Abuela many times, including when she needed Constacia's help the most. But when Constacia's mother gets the flu, her father tells her "that [she] should escort la abuela to church" (Ortiz-Cofer para 4). Constacia doesn't want to help her Abuela, but her father insisted on it. She doesn't care what happens to her grandmother, but her father makes

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