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[email protected]. FRANCISCO’S FLOWERS KRISTOPHER A. PAUL Master’s Program in Creative Writing APPROVED: ——————————————————- Daniel Chacòn, MFA, Chair —————————————————— Elizabeth Scheid, MFA ——————————————————- Tim Hernandez, MFA —————————————————— Linnea Alexander, ________________________________ Charles H. Ambler, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School FRANCISCO’S FLOWERS By KRISTOPHER A. PAUL, B.A. ENGLISH FRANCISCO’S FLOWERS Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at El Paso in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts Department of Creative Writing THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO December 2016 Acknowledgements Any accomplishment worthy of great praise cannot be done easily on one’s own. There- fore it is only right that those who worked behind the scenes, in support of great efforts should be given their due respects. First, I would not be anywhere that I am without my amazing, encouraging, and support- ive wife, Heather, without whom none of my greatest achievements would have ever been at- tempted in the first place.