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Writer's pictureMariony Enid

La corbeta rosa – Parte 1: Versos en el cristal (The Pink Corvette – Part 1: Verses on the Glass)

Updated: Jun 28



My mother was seventeen when she married my father. It wasn’t long before she found out she was having me. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday I was born. My father was an experienced man getting out of a divorce and was considerably older than her. He was raised by his mother because his father was out of the picture for many years, and even when he was there, they were never close.

Years passed, and my mother looked more tired every day. At first, I didn’t notice, she was my mother, perfect in every way. But everyone else did, and it wasn’t long before I realized things were not right. That’s when I started asking questions. I was only a child, so nobody really bothered to explain anything.

“Mamá, ¿qué te pasa?” I would ask. “Nada mi amor. Estoy cansada,” she would say. That was all it took for me to feel at ease. A few days passed and I noticed I wasn’t seeing her as much as I usually did. My grandparents were picking me up at school more often, so my five-year-old self figured my parents were working very hard so I could have what I wanted for my birthday.

There it was! On the morning of my sixth birthday, I got what I had been waiting for, a pink mini corvette. I felt like I was the luckiest girl in the world. My corvette made me so happy, my only concern at the time was I had nobody to ride it with. I was an only child, and my cousins were only allowed to come over on special occasions. But it didn’t take long for me to forget about that, after all, I had my pink corvette.

A few months passed and my pink corvette was not fun anymore. I wanted to go over to my friend’s house, but my parents insisted they came over instead. Nothing I could really do about it. My mother started spending more time with me, but at the same time, it wasn’t her. “¿Y ahora qué pasa?” I wondered. But what could I do? After all, I was only six.

To be continued…


My Pink Corvette (1991)



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