Bacalaitos as familial memory and penance, SF Chronicle, 2018
My maternal great-grandma, Abuela Emilia, was born in Puerto Rico around 1913 and died in 2003. Despite her nine decades on earth, she and I knew nothing about each other. Hell, I didn’t even know I had a great-grandma until I showed up on her stoop in North Philly circa 1995-96. At the time, she and my grandma hadn’t spoken in 40 years.
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