By Alma Luz Villanueva
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the word, but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too.”
Frida Kahlo
Me– “Frida, I think if
we had been girls to
gether, we would have
been best amigas.”
Frida– “Are you more
boy than girl?” she
laughs.
Me– “I think I’m half
and half, sometimes the
boy takes over, and
sometimes the girl.”
Frida– “I wouldn’t
want to be all boy or
all girl, that would
be boring, como no,” she
laughs again, stirring the
dark mole, making me
hungry. “Juana will
take over, time to
paint, boy/girl,
girl/boy, I give
birth to paintings, not
children,” she
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