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  1. Sep 2023
    1. Anna: When you think of home right now, what does that make you think of? Norma: Three things: My childhood, that was home. Where | am now, that's home. Wherever we get together, we create home, even if it's virtually on the Zoom. My sisters and |, we share what's going on with our lives, we share jokes, what's the latest movie or the latest book or x whatever you want to share. And that creates home.

      Norma say's that the bonding and the connection between her sister and her is what creates a home and I agree with that. You can have a place to live but not everyone will consider it a home. For me, my home is my family and if they didn’t live with me I don’t think I’d consider calling it a home. It’ll just be a roof over my head.

    1. In Puerto Rico, nobody pushes you, you walk slowly as if the day had 48 hours. Persons completely unknown to you say: “Buenos Dias,” (Good morning), with a reverence and a calm- ness in their voices that reveals centuries of a quiescent, reposed, unhurried way of life.

      Speaking from experience this is very accurate, in New York the people are always in a rush and usually aren't friendly unlike the people in Puerto Rico who are so kind and will greet you no matter who you are and at any given time of day.