NEHI is a relatively rare disorder of the lungs that was first classified and described in 2005. As a result, it is difficult to estimate the number of children with this disorder in the US. However, this is one of the most common forms of chILD and is still underdiagnosed.

As a child, Negi struggles to understand her family's poverty. Negi has her first taste of American imperialism as her school rolls out the breakfast program. Learning to crochet teaches Negi …

As the eldest child, Negi takes on a majority of the parental responsibility for her younger siblings. She feels terrible when her youngest brother, Raymond, injures his foot in a bicycling accident. The wound never heals properly, and local doctors decide to amputate.

Negi Springfield is the son of master mage Nagi Springfield, famously known as the legendary "Thousand Master" and Arika Anarchia Entheofushia, the last Queen of Vespertatia, who fought alongside Nagi in the Great war and was instrumental in ending it.

When I Was Puerto Rican follows Negi from age 4 to 14, from early childhood to the beginnings of puberty. As the oldest sibling, Negi is required by Mami to grow up and mature much faster than her younger siblings, male or female.

Negi 's interest in and interpretation of love and relationships changes over the course of the memoir. As a child, Negi believes that her parents' relationship is normal; she's raised to believe that all men are indiscriminately sexual and therefore have affairs.

As a young child, Negi wants to be a jíbara when she grows up. Negi describes jíbaros as proud country people whose art, music, and image are celebrated throughout Puerto Rico.

When Negi speaks about walking “by” (beside) and watching herself, it develops the idea that Negi's identity is made up of two parts. This becomes a physical representation of Negi's split identity and her struggle to reconcile …

Gin Ichimaru is a child when he entered the Shinigami Academy, but he completed the six-year programme in a single year, the first person to ever achieve that. His first act upon joining the Gotei 13 is to kill a Third Seat without sustaining injury, immediately replacing him in that post.

As a child, Negi is attuned to the ups and downs of her parents' relationship. Though oftentimes Papi lives with the family and there seems to be genuine warmth between him and Mami, at other times their days are marked by verbally violent fighting and days-long absences in which Papi is assumed to be with another woman.