"She’s an artist with long pigtails and rosy cheeks who sleeps on the floor at the foot of the bed, a little nest between the frame and the closet, underneath a picture she drew of pink cherry blossoms.
'We have the privilege to have something other people don’t,' Avila told me when I visited her home this week. She is one of the lucky ones, she said. She has a home with running water and power, bathrooms inside and a stove that works.
Still, Avila is desperate for a bigger house, one where the kids can be free instead of trying to stay out of the way.
Crystal dreams of a big bedroom, with space for a desk — 'living a good life,' as she puts it.
That means knowing 'where you’re going to study. Where are you siblings going be, where your parents going to be? And, like, to be calm and know that you’re in a safe place,' she tells me."
~ Anita Chabria
"'Plantation mentality’ in a rich, liberal California enclave" - Los Angeles Times
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