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What are your favorite types of foods?

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So I grew up in a very West Indian Afro-Latino kitchen. I ate so much food that was rich in flavor and spice. Tumeric, curry, anis, ginger and so many more spices are the starting point to the flavors. We eat Roti, Platanos, chillies and drink Ginger beers and Sorel. So I guess that would be my favorite type of food. OK, bye.

No, I ate mostly curries and Naan-type breads. They shaped my childhood. I can remember my long-dead family thinking about how wonderful their food smelled. It was a big thing that we shared together. In some cases, it was how they showed love and affection. My Dad used to take my all over town to pick up Roti skins for dinners with long lost relatives. I have such a big family I have only met some of them once ever. We all meetup and eat like royality, everyone shares stories of their lives.

The Caribbean has a lot of great tastes and cultures. Come see Carnival, it will change your life. The joy of strangers compelled to dance in the streets by a common music. Carnival is like a primal scream of beauty, food and dancing wrapped together. There are islands full of smilling faces.

I loved My so Called Life on MTV as a teen. It shaped my silly self view at that age. It led me on the path to Daria. Something about it let me know I could be a a moody teen girl 😂. I don’t know now why I loved it so much. I have rewatched it a few times and I’m can’t tell you why I started watching it. The show was about pretty white high schoolers with problems I couldn’t relate towards. And yet still I related to it fully. No one looked or talked like me. My school felt the same. A overly happy place that was secretly hell. My oasis became my art classes and that got me through all of it. And slowly I got past all of it and never came back after graduating.

I think I’m my mind I was living the second season in my head.