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I was maybe four years old the first time I understood that church would be the foundation of my life. My parents had guests over one evening: the man was wearing a simple dark gray suit, a bushy mustache, and perfectly ...

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We’ll be right back, I told my little sister as she stood in the front yard and cried, reminding me of the trouble that would be waiting for me when I returned. I had just turned three and was wearing my new pink birthda...

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Covered in salt for two weeks, then hung up and dry cured for up to 18 months, before being placed on a jamonero on a bar or kitchen counter, el jamón ibérico is by far the most exquisite way to eat pork. The fatty, marb...

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You're not special, she told me. I understood her intentions in that statement. She had raised a kid on her own, twenty years ago, in circumstances that she maybe felt were more difficult than mine, as if a woman’s trial...

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I was back in Madrid, visiting a good friend’s new bar, when a stranger pointed at my arm. Do you know what means the seven stars? ... Your tattoo, do you know what’s the meaning? Conversations with strangers weren’t unu...

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I walked past her, pretending to not see her as I checked that the interview room next to hers was cleared, but I saw her. I saw how she turned her head just slightly away from me, and I saw the look in her eyes. She loo...

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Some people are shaped by the places they’ve been and the stories they carry. If that sounds like you, you might feel at home here.

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