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Hi Redwood City!
For the past couple of weeks, I have been thinking of my abuelita Santos, my grandmother on my mom's side. Today, on Dia de los Muertos, I plan to celebrate her life.
I remember stumbling every morning into the tiny dining area of her small home where she lived in the neighborhood of Monterrey, the capital of the Mexican state of Nuevo León. Those mornings, she'd wake up before us kids, my brothers and I, and make fresh rolled flour tortillas and some café de olla. My mother didn't let us drink coffee, but abuelita let us have our cafecito, and if we wanted pan dulce, she'd send one of our cousins to fetch it. "Whatever you want, you will have it," she'd say to us in Spanish. We were the "American cousins," so we were spoiled, our Mexican cousins would say to us. That's not true, of course. Abuelita Santos loved us all. She would tell us stories and take us on walks. She had no favorites.
My abuela died a long time ago, and I miss her dearly. But even though I miss everything about her and those mornings in Mexico, I cherish all the time I had with her and celebrate who she was. Today on Dia de los Muertos, I ask that you remember and commemorate the lives of those you lost.
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Have a happy Wednesday!
Michelle
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