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Talia considered how people who do horrible things can be victims, and how victims can be people who do horrible things.
She told them her mother was abroad and sent her back to Colombia when she was a baby. But this particular family condition was so common it couldn’t possibly be considered trauma.
He resented the idea of becoming what some called illegal, as if just waking up another day in North America made a person a felon.
Only women knew the strength it took to love men through their evolution to who they thought they were supposed to be.
A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.
Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it’s ugly and distorted; you’ve become a scorned, unwanted creature.
Leaving is a kind of death. You may find yourself with much less than you had before.
