In my dreams I visit with a younger version of my mother, before she had children and a husband to look after. I ask her if she always wore her hair up tight in a bun, trying to look like the woman dressed up in a flamenco dress on all her Maja makeup products. Or did she ever let her hair free, let her overprocessed curls stick up into the sky? And when she danced, did she stomp, lift her skirt to show off her legs?

