Letters from Grenada

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missing vera

It has been a year and eight days since my Grandma passed away.
I miss her. A lot.
She lived the last 3+ years of her life in Grenada. She was pretty senile, and I got the sense that everything – the weather, the people, the view from her verandah – seemed to her like a beautiful [...]

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because we’re all adults here, aren’t we?

Imagine someone hurts you.
REALLY hurts you.
Then for a while it’s all drama and ugly and crazy over-the-top
how-could-you-do-this-to-me
and you-don’t know-me
and you-should-have-known-I-hate-red-onions-in-my-salad
and I-wish-I-never-met-you
and can’t-you-tell-the-truth-about-anyfuckingthing?
and you-have-my-favorite-hairclip-you-asshole.
And then mercifully that psychodrama stops, finally, because it’s just too awful and you can’t concentrate on work or even play and NO, dammit, I don’t want to eat anything, I *told* [...]

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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.

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