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Alexa Cabrera

Home: Venezuela + USA

I feel at home in my apartment with my husband and dog

I feel at home in my parent's house

I feel at home in the house where I grew up

I feel at home in my grandmother's apartment in my hometown


It is like my heart has been broken into pieces and scattered

and I leave a piece of it over there when I leave

and another piece brightens when I get here


How am I a mix of these?

Not truly whole without the other


Familia + Husband

Hablar espanol + Reading in English

Tequenos + Pizza

Profiterol + Nutella

La Muralla + Costco

Gaitas + Taylor Swift

Chupe January 1st + Thanksgiving

Farmatodo + Walgreens

Palmolive + Dove

Platanitos + Sour cream and onion pringles

Cruz Diez + Lincoln

Playa Azul + Ft Lauderdale Beach

Finca + Hiking

Limpiador de pocetas m.a.s. + Charmin

Neblina + Snow

Arepa + Verizon 5G

Nancymar + Target

Pan Canilla + Amazon deliveries

Queso + Xfinity internet

I sometimes feel not enough Venezuelan or not enough American

But that is the beauty of it

I am both.






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