A pulsing ache like pushing a week-old bruise as he slunk toward me, neither of us knowing whether to hug or not and so we only did it halfway even though I wanted the whole thing. I wanted to be enveloped.
“... it is estimated that approximately 95 percent of agricultural workers in the United States were born in Mexico, 52 percent of them unauthorized”
― Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
― Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
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