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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Chancleta

 Chancleta is a sandal or slipper. Something a mother who needed to whack (admonish) a child with, for misbehaving, would be something handy, is called a chancleta.

I never whacked any of my children. However, I did use my slippers for whacking spiders. So much so, that my slippers are called, "Spider whackers."


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