A letter from Jul 23rd, 2021

Dear Maria, I hope you're doing well. I expect you to be doing the things you like and make you feel alive. Not as me doing right now, I feel a constant missing piece of my self every day, and it kinda hurts me at night. I feel like I actually in the future i don't have nothing that makes me happy, that scares me I don't want to be just a wannabe all my life and work in something that won't make me feel the best things in life. I'm 17 years (and 7 months) old at the day and right now I have and need to know what to do with my life, exactly the past month you did graduate from school. 18 are so close by the seconds and the pressure of what i have to choose what to do with the rest of my life is on my back and breathing on my neck. I now that by the time you'll probably crying, we are so sensitive, I hope you're more mature than me and take good decisions of what you really want by heart. Please take pictures of everything, every detail around you, that makes me feel good sometimes. I hope you have found somebody that makes you feel good with yourself and you guys relationship, I hope you trust in each other's and have a good communication. Maria I want you to feel secure about you, you are a good person, friend, sister, daughter. You're kind, humble, friendly, smart, pretty. I want you to remember that to you every day. I expect your English to be better and learn new languages. Please make sure you have a good relationship with your family your parents love you so much and your sisters appreciate you for the good things you have done for them. Make new friend, like the ones that appear in your board on Pinterest called '17' (things you wished done at my age), love,dance,hug, kiss, listen the music you like, travel, laugh hard, scream at the top of your lungs what you love and makes happy. Please do that for me, I beg you to. We're still in COVID-19 time in a few days I believe I'm getting vaccined, it's have been 1 year and a half, and you don't have a good relation with the rest of your family (your aunts), I hope it is over and you can forgive, it hurts now but I trust in that God is gonna be there for you and be wise. Well by the moment thank God you and your family haven't had the virus, that's a good thing. I hope your parents love each other more than what they do now. Maybe youre some Europe county having a good time with friends and the people you love, that the best, enjoy every minute with them. I'm praying for you to be the best of you. I wish you the best and bless you. With love and every piece of my heart, María Adriana<3 (Summer 2021)