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me duele el corazón

"Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war."

estoy rota

«I drank so much of that cold milk it grew tasteless on my numbed tongue. Each morning after that, we’d repeat this ritual: the milk poured with a thick white braid, I’d drink it down, gulping, making sure you could see, both of us hoping the whiteness vanishing into me would make more of a yellow boy.»

me tengo que matar