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Walking into my grandmother’s house, and smelling her delicious mole, would make everyone run into the dinner table before saying “, dinner is ready”! Aunts, Uncles, Cousins would be sitting down in the table ready to eat and enjoy the evening with the family.
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Playing hide and seek. To me it was like having a brand new Barbie doll. I loved playing with my cousins around my grandmother’s backyard with thousands of beautiful flowers around. It amazed me how granny had a passion for flowers.

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Celebrating El Dia De Los Muertos was a tradition in Mexico. We would celebrate it the 1st or 2nd of November.
Markets would be filled with cempasuchil flowers. Making sugar skills and folding papers to me designs and hang them around your house and neighborhood meant a lot to us it was like bringing back our loved one.
What amused me was when majority of the people celebrating el dia de los muertos would go to their realtives grave and place their favorite meal that they would always eat.
Many people would also take liquor and leave it on top of their loved ones graveyard. I would always wonder if the myths people would tell where true. That the dead people would rise from their graves and eat and drink what was left in their grave. In the end we would never know who ended up eating the meals.
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Having a role model in the house and always on my dad’s chef hat. I would running around the house looking for the stool to put in the corner of the kitchen table, admiring the smell of the food and the desserts he would make us for dinner and always wanting to be like him kept a smile on his face.
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Waking up every Saturday morning with my Hello Kitty pajamas, rushing to the living room and being the first one to get the remote, switching the channels to Disney and watching That’s so Raven. That would be my typical Saturday Mornings.
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Wanting a Quincianera was all a latina girl would look forward to once she turned 15 it meant she would turn into not only a teenager but a women. Having older siblings filled me with joy. Knowing it’d be easy to get on my side and protect me like he was my body guard.
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Having to come to a new country, new place, new neighbors, and new everything had me upset. Leaving everything behind my family, friends, house and pets to come live a better life. Not just for me but for my whole family. It impacted my life at the age of 5 and up to this day it has shaped my life, who I’ve become and what I want in life.