By Esmeralda Santiago
BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER
By Jamie Figueroa
Not so long ago you could travel to other landscapes, peopled with men, women and children who might not look like you, who might not speak your language, who seemed to have been created just so you could build memories. When you’re a tourist in someone else’s home, you’re there to get away from your own life, to preserve and post images of your adventures and experiences on social media, proof that you’re curious about the world and that you can still have fun. To you those foreigners — preferably wearing traditional dress or an approximation of it, their bodies adorned in patterns and textures you find charming but wouldn’t wear yourself once you touch down at home — are there to fill holes in your life so deep you don’t even see them anymore.

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