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  • Writer: Yaira Ebanks
    Yaira Ebanks
  • Sep 2, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 17, 2025

I was five years old when I met 

my mother and stepfather

     how long before I called them 

     mami, papi


today at 45 years old

for the first time

     I called my father papa 


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