I am a first generation American. I feel the love my ancestors had for my mother land but my heart is red, white and blue.
Growing up in a home where picadillo, red beans and rice are our comfort foods, I longed to eat meatloaf and potatoes. I looked on the blond haired girls in my class where I was the only little spanish girl and wished I had freckles. I watched my favorite movie The Coalminers Daughter and longed to be from that world. Funny huh? I did finally eat my first meatloaf in my twenties and it is still kind of romantic to me.
The fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays behind Thanksgiving and Christmas. My Dad would take us every year to a park where they would have an amazing fireworks display and of course we always wore the red, white and blue. In my teens my parents would take us to Miami Beach for the week and still do.
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