“Echalé ganas, mija. Tu vienes de una familia fuerte. Sigué luchando.” Keep fighting; you come from a family of fighters. This is what my abuelita Sarita tells me before I board a small van on the start of my trip back to Chicago from Olinala, Guerrero. The road back to Mexico City is about nine hours using the old road. That is nine hours of reflection of what I was going to take from that journey. Nine hours is a lot shorter than how long it is taking me to fulfill my goal to be an educator…

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