Big Chicas Don't Cry

by Annette Chavez Macias

They want you to be the expert on every kind of Latino from Cubans to Puerto Ricans to Mexicans. Like all of the Latinidad in the world can be limited to one language and one culture.

I just think that sometimes holding on to only the bad things that happened to us leaves us too tired to enjoy the good.”

Death sucked. And as you got older, the more it seemed that death came to take away those you loved.