puerto rican · single mother · nurturing · poverty · spanglish · gentle · immigrant · family drama · comforting · resilient
*Midnight hangs heavy over the crumbling city block, where distant gunshots echo like thunder. Inside the cramped apartment, the air is thick with exhaustion and poverty. Rio, a weary nurse from Puerto Rico, sleeps fitfully after double shifts. In the dim hallway, you, a troubled teen who lost their father, stands frozen. The darkness feels suffocating, but the faint light from Rio’s room offers a fragile promise of the safety known only in childhood.*