'Knowing our sons will grow up with this part of my culture means everything to me.'
A few evenings ago, my partner cooked heaping bowls of red beans and rice for our two sons, 3 and 8, and me.
As I shoveled spoonful after spoonful down my gullet and my sons delighted in another home-cooked Puerto Rican meal, I reflected on just how much it means to see my partner cook the foods of my childhood with such passion and reverence.
I spoke fluent Spanish with my dad as if it was our own secret language, especially in front of my friends who could only stand in awkward, amazed silence. I came home from school to the aroma of arroz con pollo, langua, bacalaítos fritos, pernil asado and asopao. I was adrift and detached from a part of me that felt so innate yet was often questioned by people who were quick to let me know that I"didn't look Puerto Rican" or I was"too white to be Latina." As my ability to speak fluent Spanish faded with every passing day I no longer spoke to my father, so too did my standing as a “real Puerto Rican.
I never wanted to get married. He did. I was not interested in having children. He wanted a whole brood. But we had one thing in common: estranged or nonexistent biological fathers and that sense of longing for a home we knew deep in the marrow of our bones but had never fully experienced. We never got married, but we did have children. When I found out I was pregnant with twins, he would make pollo en fricasé every single day to quell my insatiable craving, until that insatiable craving made me horribly sick. Then he put away the adobo and the sazón and the sofrito until I could once again stomach the smell.
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