A roach infestation is never really gone.

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A Conversation Between Darlene Rodriguez and The Kid Mero on Home, Heritage, and the Heartbeat of the Bronx

Your mother cooked with the furious and exacting intelligence of a person kept from their true great dreams, given a home kitchen for a canvas instead. 

Perhaps this is what happens when you don’t bear your own children—motherhood comes for you anyway.

About a year after my grandfather passed, I found "Kaddish." It helped me mourn.