The Distance Between Us

by Reyna Grande

Failure is inevitable in life, but success is how you pick yourself up from failure and continue forward on your journey.

Tales and mythologies serve as a way of making sense out of crisis and guiding one through it.

Every young woman needs a safe home to become herself.

had to keep on believing my parents left me because they loved me too much and not because they didn’t love me enough.

the distance between us and our parents was destroying our relationship more than any of us could have imagined.

Those books gave me a glimpse into a world I wished to belong to, where there were no alcoholic fathers, no mothers who left you over and over again, no fear of deportation. I wondered what it would be like to live in a place like that. That world was the perfect place I had imagined the U.S. to be.

We were already living in some kind of Hell in this strange place of broken beauty.