She lived in a barn close to my family’s. By family I mean my mother Joelia, my father Roberto, my aunt Lucilla, and her teen torrents Camilo and Estephan. It was a pretty hectic life after Uncle Estevan died, so my parents took in Lucilla and her kids.
That was four years ago, I was 12 years old and still didn’t mind the whole ordeal. But as of two years ago our lives started getting crowded.

Our three bedroom plus studio,two story, brick house was NOT helping us out at all either. Mom and dad had the master bedroom, my cousins my old bedroom, my aunt the guests room, and yeah, I got the cramped little “studio”. It was more like a corner of the house walled up with a french door, but it was my escape.

Our living arrangement is what convinced my parents to move to the coast of Georgia, and as they said “It’s cheaper mortgage!”. Well, we were living in New Jersey and things weren’t too affordable on our side of town.