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Hi guys, welcome back to Unbreakable Latina. This is your host, Melina.

I hope you're having an amazing day, whatever day you're listening to this on.

I'm recording on Sunday, today's Father's Day, and if you're new here, and haven't listened to previous episodes, I don't have a relationship with my dad.

The last few years have been difficult where I cry all day and I'm sad.

But yeah, I cried, but it wasn't like a cry of sadness.

It was just a cry of remembering, like, the good times.

So I decided that this year I'm just going to remember the good relationship that we had at some point for like 17 years of my life.

My dad and I were very close and I was a daddy's girl.

So I just want to remember those years and think of all the good memories that I have and not think of the bad memories that I have.

And I don't know, that just helps me cope better.

I also feel like now that healing, it's not linear and it's not something like you just turn off

or like, I'm good now.

It comes in waves.

It comes in waves, especially when I know that my dad is still on this earth and that I don't have a relationship with him.

And I struggle with it because sometimes I think like maybe, you know, what if we tried? Would it have been different?

But then I remember that I did try a lot and I just lost myself trying to save that relationship when it wasn't reciprocated.

So I decided that this year is going to be a little different.

My sister's coming over in a bit and my mom and her and I are going to barbecue

and we're just going to chill out like

some madres outside.

It's so hot this weekend.

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