Dear cali sister:

For some reason, Maria was the most important person in her life- not her girls, not her husband- but Maria. Almost like a love story, an affair of sorts.

“It was a nice dream for me to  have my box to  myself and leave”- a box, like a shoe box, can represent the house you grew up in for many years, with your parents and sister (and Maria)- where you were trapped, sort of.. a girl in a box. Youth in a box, hopes and dreams in a box. You took that box Oct 3 with you and you opened that box when you curled your hair and as you change your wardrobe- freeing that girl, letting  her out of the box.

It is not as smooth in real life as in the image of opening a box. The girl inside still has some chains limiting her movements, and she sometimes forgets (and will forget) that she is no longer in the box, but she certainly started the process of reclaiming the freedom she was born to have!

anita