Hector Sifuentes doesn’t know it yet, but in a few hours, he’ll have one of the best nights of his life. He’s calling from Austin, where he has a stand-up comedy gig at Ani’s Day and Night, a coffee shop and outdoor event space in the city’s East Riverside neighborhood. The show is called Standupatodos , and will be performed entirely in Spanish alongside fellow comics Luis Silva and Angelica Laguna. It's still hours away, but Sifuentes says the event has already sold 100 tickets.

Sifuentes was born and raised in Dallas to a father from Durango, Mexico, and a mother from Chihuahua, with an older brother and two younger sisters. As a teenager at Duncanville High School, Sifuentes was an outcast who took up skating. His memories of his aunt and uncle's house are fortified by the huddles h

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