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Soy/Somos: Americana/Dominicana

November 20, 2022 Marlena Maduro Baraf

Carmelish Carrasco after graduating with a Master’s in Social Work.

During Covid, not seeing my family, I felt a sense of isolation. I lost my grandmother in Florida during Covid. This grandmother, my dad's mother, lived in Providence when I was 7 or 8. She was bougie in what she wore. Coach from head to toe. "Don't bother to learn to cook," she'd tell me. "Study and you'll be just fine. Do new things."

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In Diversity, Families, Soy/Somos Tags First Generation Americans, Social Worker, Education, Dominican Republic, Trujillo, multiculturalism
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Happy Valentine's Day!

February 13, 2022 Marlena Maduro Baraf
upper torso of woman hands in yoga prayer position against white sky

Photo by Stephanie Greene on Unsplash

Elizabeth Lara told me how she was struck by a coup de foudre, French for bolt of lighting, when she saw Erasmo, across the room at a party in DC many years ago. Two years later she moved to the Dominican Republic to share his life. Liz had to learn to live a la Dominicana, a straight talking American girl from Illinois.

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In Corona Diary, Diversity, Soy/Somos Tags Valentine's Day, Pandemic, multiculturalism, Dominican Republic, The Ungrateful Refugee, Elizabeth Lara, Latin American poets
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