“I want to make the right choice. The best one for our family. For our business and everyone.” “What happened to the best choice for you?” Papi asks. For me. My legacy. My heart. My future. But a piercing truth slashes like Tío’s knife into corn stalks. I turn to my mother. “You didn’t send me to England so I would choose it over our family, over Miami and La Paloma.” Not the woman who lost her best friend to the same country. “If you’d known, you wouldn’t have put me on that plane. But you did and now look!” Mami stands and reaches for me, her hands twined with mine and her eyes like arrow
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