The pain I feel at her death from ovarian cancer at age 67 remains raw. The guilt over not appreciating Mami’s love until it was too late, haunts me.
Every time I visit the grave of my mother, Maria de la Luz Arellano Miranda, I follow the same ritual. I park on a cul de sac within Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange, then wander around for at least 10 minutes, annoyed with myself for always forgetting the exact location where Mami is buried.
Her example of facing a cruel world with grit and grace influenced my three siblings and me to succeed in life — or them, at least. They all work in the public sector, while I'm the black sheep of the family as a reporter. The trumpet in 'Lara's Theme' turns wary about halfway in, but I get a small smile thinking about what I put my mami through. I vexed her like a Mexican Dennis the Menace.
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