Letters from Grenada

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in which i dip my toes in the water

Compartmentalizing your emotions is not unlike storing leftovers.

You put them in a Tupperware, throw the thing in the fridge and forget about it. Time passes. It gets pushed back, behind the milk. Then one day, when you’re trying to make room for something else, you come across it and toss it to the back of the bottom shelf without even thinking about what’s in it. More time passes and you decide to clean out your fridge. You come across the container again, only this time you actually open it. What’s inside is unrecognizable. And smelly. So you wrinkle up your nose and throw it away for real this time, without a moment’s thought. And you do this in spite of the fact that when you first put it in the Tupperware, you were certain it was something worth saving.

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One Response to “in which i dip my toes in the water”

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    david:

    It’s like that with resentments, too. They just smell worse.

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My name is María. I like wasabi, patronize bunny rabbits and think red wine really needs to stop pretending it's not purple.

I lived in Caribbean for four glorious years. My son - Joaquín the illustrious Bean - was born on the island of Grenada. He's beautiful, brilliant and has two birth certificates.

Now we're back in the land of snow and afternoon sunsets, and all the diet Coke and Thomas the Tank Engine in the world won't cushion the blow of such culture shock.

This is our story.


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