NosotrAs: The Women Who Brought Me Here

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One of the first trips I could make with my mom outside the country was to New York. By then, my savings were beginning to allow me experiences that had long been dreams. We were walking around the city when she stared at the buildings, sighed and told me that sometimes she imagined what her life would have been like if she had had other possibilities to choose her way. I kept thinking about who Lupita would have been if the circumstances had be…