Lina: No One’s Little Girl

Last Day

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Growing up, Lina Martinez treasured holidays spent with her family. She remembers the food, the ornaments, the dancing, and — above all – her dad, who made everything warmer and brighter. Year round, her dad Luis was her person, her best friend. But when Luis fell ill shortly before Christmas, Lina could already tell her holidays were going to look different from then on. Lina shares with Stephanie what it was like to receive and lose the most important kind of love in her life, and how she makes space for her grief, even during the most “wonderful” time of the year.

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0:49.3	Leminata. I opened the car door to give him a good goodbye hug and tell him I love him and he's like,
1:00.4	are you okay? I was like, Dad, I want you to know like I'm okay.
1:05.0	It's 2016.
1:07.0	Lena Martinez is a 22 year old college student getting out of her dad's car
1:11.5	after celebrating Thanksgiving with her family.
1:14.0	She's at that point in life where you're in between childhood and adulthood.
1:19.0	You're still figuring things out, but you want to be seen as a capable adult who's independent and
1:25.7	responsible and able to make it on your own.
1:30.2	But what she doesn't know in this moment, looking at her dad, is that soon she'll feel one of the heaviest adult burdens falling squarely on her shoulders.
1:46.0	My thing was like, I have to love him more than he loves me. I have to do more than he already does for me because this is the time where you show up.
1:50.0	He's shown up every second of my life.
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