Learning to ride, falling down, getting back on
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Melida Rodas works as marketing and media-relations director for Cara Squared, an affordable-housing developer in New Jersey. Born in Guatemala, she is an advocate for equality and social justice.
Life has always been as hard as the soles of my father’s feet. Like the callused hand my face melts into. He holds it like the cantaloupe before a fruit salad. Like life before America. Before it’s sliced, devoured, consumed.