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Can't figure out my internal clock.

Ticks and ticks and ticks but it does not tock.

Elena Isabel. A conundrum of a child. When I first held her in my arms, I swear she looked at me with a look that told me there was nothing I could teach her that she didn’t already know. She is so silly and so mischievous. She giggles the sweetest giggles. Her cries will tear at your soul. She loves music and rocks and sways to her favorite songs. She loves books, numbers, letters, figures. Things that mean exactly what they mean and make sense. Don’t tell her sisters but she is the absolute best cuddler. She doesn’t do anything that she doesn’t want to. And when she chooses to give you a hug, kiss, or any affection–you can’t help but feel that you truly were chosen.

She used to say more, with actual words. A lot actually. But she’s pulled away lately. Working things out in her mind, I think. Figuring out this world we force upon her. Sometimes I whisper to her that I know one of these days she’s going to talk to me, tell me all her gripes. And I swear she looks at me with that same look she gave me at just a few hours old. There is nothing I can teach her that she doesn’t already know.

Whenever you’re ready, Chiquis.

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Eliana Luz. A force of light on gray days. She feels everything at 190%. The smallest joys are met with full belly laughs. The most minor upsets are met with full on sobs. She walks with determination and a swagger beyond her six years. She eats like it’s her last meal almost every time. She gives the tightest bear hugs that could tackle you to the ground.

She didn’t say anything besides Mom and Pop until she was about three years old. I found her one day, in the corner of the room with a book of animals pointing each one out and trying her damnedest to get the words out. Til this day, the word “elephant” has never been said with such determination as that day, and has never sounded sweeter. She still struggles with saying most words, but is trying so hard every single day. She has taught me that you can say so much and you can say it loudly, with no words at all.

I see you, my big girl. I hear you.

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There is a spark, a fire, that burns in this kid. Everything she does is LOUD. Her joy, her anger, her sadness, her thoughts: LOUD. It can be the sweetest or the most abrasive. Deep down I know that she’s just trying to not get left behind, maybe just trying to get her fair share of attention. Almost everything in her life has been dictated by what her sister’s can or can’t do, which has to be tremendously difficult for a person who wants to do all the things, experience all the experiences. She just wants what any other kid wants; what most get. She’s not asking for too much, but she definitely needs and deserves more more more. I hope she doesn’t lose that spark while I figure it all out.

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My dad grew up in this house. It’s small and quaint in a small and quaint town in Puerto Rico. I went to PR last X-mas and got to see it again. Family members watch over it but no-one lives there anymore. It’s acquired too much damage over the years. I think about it a lot. I want to go back there. I want to fix this house up, live there, and make new memories there.

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…and just like that, gone.

I got to briefly talk to one of my aunts in Puerto Rico today. She was genuinely happy to hear me and about me and assured us that they were “fine”. There is nothing fine about this entire situation. I had to pass the phone to my dad because although I thought *I* was fine, i could bareley hold my shit together.

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Jaime Espinal, Puerto Rico

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Growing up you’re told you’re a citizen.

The same rights and liberties.

Come and go as you please.

Born free but tread lightly–

It’s an immigrant they see.

There’s nothing you can’t accomplish,

But, “Speak English.”

And “Oh you speak Spanish?

Can you translate this?”

Be proud,

but not too loud.

You can be just a bit exotic

But don’t lay the accent on too thick,

Dont be too ethnic.

Don’t forget your roots but assimilate quick.

#The Simpson #Puerto Rico

#huracanmaria #hurricane maria #Puerto Rico #diaspora #huracan

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Beba

At a diner

Costumer: The burger was well done.

Cashier: I am glad you liked it.

Costumer: I asked for medium.

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Hello Julia.

Just one day after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump told his first lie. We're keeping track.

Just one day after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump told his first lie. We’re keeping track.

#voter fraud

Before his halfhearted presidential campaign was humiliatingly flicked aside last year, Jeb Bush managed, against all odds, to deliver a prescient remark. “Donald, you know, is great at the one-liners,” Bush said at a December 2015 GOP debate. “But he’s a chaos candidate. And he’d be a chaos president.”

“As of this very moment—and this is an incomplete list—the Trump administration has ordered a freeze on most federal hiring, reinstated the Global Gag Rule, helped kick off an Obamacare repeal, invented a universe of “alternative facts,” moved forward on the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines, manifested a voter fraud crisis and promised a “major investigation” into it, appeared to plagiarize a Batman villain, prepared an order that would enact “at least a 40 percent overall decrease” in U.S. funding towards international organizations like the International Criminal Court, named a net neutrality critic to the head of the FCC, launched an aggressive and wide-ranging attack on climate science across several government agencies, claimed that experts say “torture works,” announced a plan to strip sanctuary cities of federal funding, announced the imminent construction of a border wall and a crackdown on immigration from “terror prone” countries like Syria, drafted an executive order that would allow the reopening of CIA “black site” prisons, threatened the city of Chicago with martial law, attacked an individual reporter for a mistake that had been corrected, lied repeatedly and to the CIA about the size of the inauguration attendance, and hung a panoramic and inaccurately dated photograph of the definitely huge and throbbing crowd in the West Wing, right where the press can see it.”

El prisionero político pasó 35 años en cárceles norteamericanas

#Puerto Rico #Oscar Lopez Rivera

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