Big Chicas Don't Cry

by Annette Chavez Macias

Not because I wasn’t proud of my Mexican heritage. Sometimes I was just too tired to defend it. Even in the first grade, I learned it was much easier if you didn’t talk with an accent

Hits home hella hard

When will you learn that living with something you don’t love is not living at all?”

Period

A gift is a gift, and you should always be grateful for anything someone gives you out of love. The day you tell someone what to give you is the day you no longer get gifts out of love, but rather obligation. Well, for me, I’d rather have the love.”