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Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz is coproducer of Life Out Loud, a quarterly reading series in central Florida. She lives in Winter Haven, Florida, with her husband and two troublemaking dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s blogging about her obsessions at www.jaquiradiaz.com.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
My Mother And Mercy
I hug her back, but not too tight. I’m afraid I might break her, that her collarbone will fracture, that her ribs will crack, that I will crush her with my need to put her back together again.
August 2014
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Baby Lollipops
It was the year they found a dead toddler in the bushes, head bashed in, bite marks and cigarette burns all over his body. He was wearing a T-shirt with multicolored lollipops across the front. It was November 1990.
November 2011
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