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“So Good to See You” …that story is so real. Captures the seeing him/her many years later, sizing up whether you’re sad, glad or indifferent that they haven’t been in your life all along.

Rerun (3.75)- love the highlighting of all the Puerto Rican (and Hollywood Puerto Rican passing) actors/actresses. The way they would look for all the people who look like them and represent their culture is relatable. “We clamor to claim her as kin.”

*the colorism!
What the Mouth Knows- a glimpse into children’s minds who yearn to meet their grandfather

“Rerun”

“She can hear them all, all the voices of these women with their old-fashioned advice and well-worn adages about catching more flies with honey than vinegar, being vigilant about maintaining one’s figure, and that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. What did they know?…Clearly, there was no formula, no set of behaviors, no insurance policy that could guarantee fidelity.”

“In the silence left by the music, she hears the voices of her mother and aunts and the voices of her grandmother and great-aunts—the voices of the ages, the voices of generations of women who depended upon men for their happiness, who, like roses on a trellis, wound and looped and intertwined their lives over and around a man, relying on him for support and expecting him to hold them up.”