“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was
you.”
*all quotes by Lewis B. Smedes
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When I was 5 years old, my mother handed over something that may or may not have belonged to her. Technically, it belonged to the undercover who purchased it. I'm from a place where everyone knows everyone's name and we can be counted on to forget what we have to. However, everyone saw everything clearly and arrangements were made to ship the kids to where they needed to be while mom prayed in a cement box, wiping her tears on the stuffed animals she'd send me. Meanwhile, my dad was in a box, tightly packed in a shitty cemetery (because you've got to show baptismal records to get into the nice ones) and my brother + sister's dad pretended like she and his children were in one (until he decided he needed American papers years later) and so, I'm sure you understand, a woman had to do what a man had to do. The US government gladly gave my mother two-years vacation + a one-way ticket back to where the f*ck she came from - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. At the age of 5, I began living with strangers. From the age of 5, #CF raised me.
