They Called Me the “Ugly High School Graduate” in Front of Everyone — and My Family Expected Me to Smile and Accept It

the narrative of who the Martinezes were, and they did it so thoroughly that when Sarah married Michael Fuentes ten years later, her own husband did not know she had a sister.

The years between eighteen and thirty-two were not a montage. They were not the compressed, cinematic transformation that stories like mine are supposed to contain—a few scenes continue reading …