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Finding Grace in the Missing Parts of My Story

August 8, 2017August 3, 2017 Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros

I reflect on pictures my mom kept of me posing on grandma’s front porch, my three-year-old little body donning a Fiesta dress with intermingled colors. They dance with each other far from lament. Dad’s sailor cap is tipped over my face, covering my left eye, making me giggle as I reach up to catch it […]

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