My beloved aunt Gloria died last Saturday, on the Fourth of July. She was 81. Another victim of cancer.
Last August, not long after she started chemotherapy, I took the train to Brooklyn to visit her and my uncle. It had been years since we had seen each other. I brought her a bowl of fruit candies in a heart-shaped bowl—“something sweet to enjoy,” I told her.
During my afternoon visit, despite my protests, she took some tamales from the freezer and cooked them for me, along with rice. Ever since I was a kid, feeding me had always brought her joy, so I ate the tamales, the rice, and the dessert she served. (I was so full, I canceled my dinner reservations afterward.)
There we sat in the dining room, the same one from my childhood. We laughed out loud, recalling stories from when my cousins and I were kids in the neighborhood, when our fathers worked at the bodega, when the future was unimaginable.
We briefly acknowledged the elephant in the room, then pushed it aside.
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