DIASPORICAN: illyanna Maisonet is Puerto Rican in California

DIASPORICAN: illyanna Maisonet is Puerto Rican in California

I Remember Nothing And Everything.

Including my mom and grandma's buffet salad.

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illyanna Maisonet
Jun 30, 2026
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She stood at the counter and roughly chopped the iceberg lettuce. Little Nereida loved iceberg lettuce. She always asked for extra lettuce on her junior chicken sandwich at Jack in the Box because they had the best, crisp, cold iceberg lettuce. Her counter was covered in all the fixins that goes onto her salad: bacon bits, croutons, sunflower seeds, dried cranberries, walnuts. She stopped…and just stared out the window over the sink. Her mind had been so foggy lately.

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