My mom used to tell me stories at night read books to me – and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything – Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What was I some kind of nincompoop? No – the narrative gave me connection with my mom.
I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents – I'm very close to my mom – but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
