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Karla Mendoza
Aug 07, 2022
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I didn’t anticipate the grief that would arise from living in a country that doesn’t love me for 20 years. I specifically use the word country here and not land. These lands love me, they hold me, connected to my own lands in ways I always dream of. It is this country, this empire, that doesn’t love me, but to be fair, I never loved it either.

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