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Title: The truth shall set you free.
Review: I am a great grandson of James Balli McAllen and a great great grandson of John McAllen. No mention is made in this book of the four children James Balli fathered by Cleofas Guajardo, beginning when she was just fifteen. Dolores, Virginia, Herlinda and Avelina were their names. Avelina died of cancer at 36 in a shack on Polk Street in Brownsville, Texas. She was my grandmother. James fathered children by at least two woman not mentioned in I Would Rather Sleep in Texas. (See the film, Border Bandits, to learn a little about one of the others). It is possible that part of the land that now is the McAllen Ranch was taken as a debt owed from the Guajardos and that the ranch came with a girl who was promised marriage. Perhaps it was common then to have such affairs; however, the account of James' family is simply not accurate.
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