[Gabby Rivera]

NELLY!!! this was effortless. The piece moved and flowed at every turn. Love your descriptions and how you are able to place us so deeply in the moment. Run with what you’re writing. you fill this piece with so much family history and still kept the energy up, fierce, focused. i cheered out loud for your grandma: My mother, siblings, aunts, uncles and brother-in-law converted to Jehovah’s Witness when I was two, my grandmother on the other hand was neither catholic or JW, she would say “I am my own person and do not tell me what to do and who to believe in”.
I can’t wait to read more about her and more about, Nel.