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She learned that no one was ever going to want her, for reasons she couldn’t control, and that praying to chipped statues of la Virgen María and el niñito Jesús didn’t come with anything but silence. She learned to survive and survived by learning.
“You can still love someone even after they hurt you.” “Doesn’t mean we should.” Rey side-eyed her, his full mouth smirking, the cigarette burning as quickly as his nerves.
“Latino families just think they’re cursed because they won’t blame God or the Virgin Mary or colonization.”
The world is bad and sometimes good things happen, not the other way around.
Orquídea thought beautiful men were even more dangerous. Men were already born with power. Why did they need more?
