Jenni Mabrie
Joined August 2020
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Malibu Barbie
The time: Summer of 1985. The setting: El Paso, Texas—a small apartment on the Spanish-speaking side of town. I had just turned five. All I could think of was the Malibu Barbie that my parents had promised me for quite some time. I remember the day so vividly as the sun was beaming through our small ventana—I mean, window, into the main living space of my family’s apartment. I can still smell the tacos del pastor that dad had been preparing for my fiesta. His smile ignited a light within my soul just like el sol through la ventana. Mami seemed stressed- I could tell by her keen sense of urgency—an urgency that even a toddler would be able to observe and soak in like the wrinkled skin under her eyes.
By Jenni Mabrie3 years ago in Fiction
