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Rivera is an artist and lives in Cortez Hills.
My brothers and I lost our parents, Taurino and Silvia Rivera, weeks apart to COVID-19. One of my brothers had to watch as everything unfolded from the border in Tijuana, Mexico, because he signed his voluntary departure in 2011. Losing our parents was the most painful thing, and we are still coping with it, but it has brought us closer as a family.
Our parents’ story begins in a small town in Oaxaca, Mexico. Dad was born Aug. 28, 1963, and Mom on May 28, 1964. They got married on her birthday in 1983. Their childhood was full of wonders in the open fields of rural Oaxaca but also accompanied by lots of labor in order to survive.