You were the remedy

You were the remedy– fierce and destructive, destroying life like Hurricane Maria, doling out blows to your children with unyielding winds, battering hope. She was expected to be the success story, the one to get you out of ‘this damn town’; The favorite, the light-skinned daughter, with good grades and good hair like a Puerto Rican. Forget a harvest. You salted the land.

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