WAITING TO EXHALE

On October 14, 2016, I wrote this post as a letter to my country to be read on November 9 — one day after the election — as I looked so forward to America voting in its first woman President

Nov 05, 2024

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“The Battle of 2016, led by a Reality TV Star who’s no longer good for ratings… a page in marketing chicanery forever to dwell below the fold.”—Heidi Siegmund Cuda for Maewestside, October 14, 2016

I am revisiting my archives. They exist like time capsules of pain, defiance, hope. I am leaving them raw as I wrote them, a mother struggling to sway the win…

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