Tag: life
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The older we get, the more we are our parents
Everything I criticized about my mother I see now in myself. My hands adopt the same sleeping position as my dad’s, I learned to cook my mom’s soup, I even laugh like them and fold my shirts the exact same way she does. Many of opinions have their closed and traditional tendencies, even though they…
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Do we need cities?
Conversations with a cockroach I couldn’t sleep the other day. It was four in the morning already and no signs of sleepiness were showing up. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t tired. I was exhausted and my mind started thriving, like one does at four in the morning. The reason for my insomnia? A dingy bar…
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Leopards and Soccer
My hometown, Bucaramanga, is a small city, with a hot climate, of “angry” and “berraca” (strong) people. I have never been very interested in soccer, but for several weeks, a furor had been developing in my city, which was impossible to ignore, to the point where it became contagious.
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What did we used to do before the internet?
What to do on a toilette and without internet? Gawk at the stains on the wooden door, finding shapes and faces of characters in the grooves. I would look at the beige tiles on the floor, maybe count them, play at not stepping on the joints, look at the material of the knob, metal, and…
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Discourage
Every morning Fatima would wake up feeling great, even though she had been able to sleep a couple of hours longer. But from time to time Fatima felt discouraged.
Tina Ovalle 