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Ana Rodriguez operates in both spheres—the before and the after—and while I struggle to understand
taking a sip of her cafecito. “The story of Cuba is one of struggles and strife. When we were girls, we were kept
“Terrible things rarely happen all at once,” she answers. “They’re incremental, so people don’t realize how bad things have gotten until it’s too late. He swore up and down
“The thing with loss is that at first, you don’t notice. You lose your favorite pair of shoes, but there
They ensure we’re so preoccupied with the daily struggle that there’s little left over for the most important one, for taking control of our future.”
No freedom. Their exile from these things isn’t self-imposed; it was thrust upon them by a government that has been in power their entire lives. And so, the beauty of life here—the simplicity of it—is also the tragedy of it.
corsair
Taíno
pushes off from the desk abruptly, tugging me forward
That’s the thing about death—even when you think someone is gone, glimpses of them remain in those they loved and left behind.
