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The Curse of Adrian Lyne

I have to admit that I like Adrian Lyne’s movies, especially Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.

We must hold onto hope, even if doesn’t do anything for parents who lost their children, victims of negligence & compulsory military service.

Coconuts haven’t been in regular supply at markets for a long time. The few that are sold are by self-employed sellers, at least in Havana.

Anyone living in Cuba can testify to the disaster we are experiencing, of this dysfunctional and dead-end system that is called “continuity”.

I got the phone call from the hospital that morning. The mother’s excited voice told me, “Everything went well, the girl is beautiful…”

Going to the beach in the summer is inevitable when you have children. If you forget, don’t worry they’ll remind you every day.

The fear of being exposed to others is one of the new conflicts that wear on interpersonal relationships in Cuba.

Many families in my town have set up a counter and a shelf in their garage or doorway to their house and have set up their own bakery.

I’ve never believed in palmistry or reading cards, or snails or any kind of fortune-telling, not even in mediums or babalawos.

You can find a bra at any market in any other country in the world. Yet this necessary women’s garment is out of many Cubans’ reach…