Flores and Miss Paula: A Peruvian Immigrant Family Story – Mother and Daughter Bridging Two Worlds in Brooklyn

by Melissa Rivero

wish I could protect you from that. I wish you’d want my comfort, because I long to kiss you, to hold you. To say, You’ll be okay, hija. We are going to be okay. That’s what a mother is supposed to do, I think. That’s also what I want to hear.