Sunday, October 31, 2021

the last book I ever read (The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, excerpt twelve)

from The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio:

The migraine thing is new. I’ll visit Leonel on a Monday, then wake up with a headache on a Tuesday and have to lie in the dark for the next two days, sometimes going to Urgent Care for a migraine cocktail through an IV. My arm starts looking like I use. Then I visit him again. The migraines will not stop. I will just have to start taking daily medication to prevent them and emergency medication at their onset. They will become a part of me, and Leonel will become a part of me, and the sanctuary movement will speak to me and my traumas in the way nothing ever has before.



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