Latina Style features guest article by Cecilia Aragon

Here’s an excerpt:

“I was going to write about how proud my immigrant father was that my memoir Flying Free would be published this September. I was going to write about how I imagined his voice in the background when I worked in Silicon Valley as one of a very few Latina computer programmers in the 1980s, giving me inner strength. The strength to face my fears and even learn to fly. I was going to write how his pride in me led me to write my memoir and sustained me through the stunningly difficult task of laying out ninety thousand words into a compelling narrative.

But then, five days before the article deadline, my father stopped breathing.”

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