When We Were Widows

by Annette Chavez Macias

The last one stemmed from her belief that if you were late to worship God, then you risked him being late to answer your prayers.

“Some people believe—like me—that we’re connected to certain people because they’re meant to be in our lives, meaning you’re destined to have some sort of experience with them,” Evie explained. “Sometimes we meet these people before we’re supposed to. Kind of like a ‘wrong time, wrong place’ sort of thing. So we drift apart, only to be pulled back together again by an invisible string when the universe decides you’re both ready to be in each other’s lives again.”

‘If you stand for nothing, you fall for everything.’”

Sometimes we have to do things we’ve never done in order to grow. Because when you stop growing, you die.”

You need Mom and she needs you. She is la hija de su madre, and you are la madre de su hija.”

We’d traveled alone in the dark for so long because our secrets and pride had kept us from realizing that we were on the same path all along. Once we let our guards down, we were able to finally see each other—really see each other. And together we took our first steps into the light.