Leaving home and everything else behind for the flickering promise of a better future is a story as old as the very desire to change one’s fortune.
My story is the story of many. An intense love for the soil underneath my bare feet and the people that walk on it – but the desire to become the best version of yourself sometimes demands a heavy toll: putting all your fragile eggs in one basket and saying goodbye to those essential things. Too dense of a story to tell in a single chapter, so this is the first puzzle piece of a growing tapestry – one that I aim to complete this year in this series.
In my case, home is a small, enchanted patch of land in the middle of the ocean – Puerto Rico,...