learned that years later from Rosa Camacho, our neighbor and my grandmother Elena’s closest friend.Weddings
Rosa had overheard Mom talking to my aunt on the phone.Parenting
“I don’t even know what to tell people,” Mom had said.
Apparently having a daughter who understood plant biology was more embarrassing than having a daughter without a daughter-shaped story she could repeat at dinner parties.
My parents paid Vanessa’s graduate tuition.
All of it.
Mom announced the amount at a holiday dinner as if she were reading a financial statement.
My
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