Alicia Saldana’s Reviews > I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter > Status Update

“People said it would get better with time, but that’s not exactly true. There are moments I miss her just as much as I did when she first died.”

Man I definitely felt that. Losing a loved one… the grief comes in waves.

“She is always going on and on about how she’ll be dead one day. Do all mothers do that?”

Generational experience. My abuelita does this to my mom who does it to her children

“Amá has never let me say it the English way. She says she’s the one who named me and that people can’t go around changing it for their own convenience. We agreed on that, at least. It’s not like it’s hard to pronounce.”

As someone who has had this happen countless times. It’s so important to me that names are pronounced correctly or even the effort is meaningful.