My sucia's ... my sisters.
So I'm currently reading "The Dirty Girls Social Club" by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. So far I can't put it down... and I wanted to share a passage that I particulary agree with.
"For the first time in my life - I think - I'm happy... I finally realized I already have what I've been looking for all these years. And I've had it for a decade. I'm talking about family. We know the one I was born into wasn't very good. (I'm inclined not to agree) And we know I've had bad luck finding the right man to create a new one with. (True Dat!) But what I"ve been too blind to see is that the women who have been my friends for the last ten year are my family. In all the ways that count, they are the loving, crazy, creative, animated, vivaious family I always wanted. Whenever, I begin to doubt my own self worth, whenever the pain of my past comes back tugging at the legs of my pants, it's my girlfirends- not my mom, not my dad, not my boyfirends, not my employers - who have my back. They're the ones who remind me I'm beautiful. They're the ones who put things in perspective. Whenever I start to feel old and despair that I will never have a family, it's my girls who step up and remind me loud and clear: I already have one."
Perhaps not every part of this exerpt fits my life exactly... for I have gone to my mother with a crisis... and I feel blessed to be part of my family... but the sentiment that my girls are my family and that I can always go to them... is true. In this book... they call themselves sucia (dirty) and we sisters... but they vowed to get together twice a year no matter where they lived... and I think we should too. I love seeing you girls once a month... South Bend, Muncie, and Indy are not too far apart, but it's important. After all of our lives take us far from eachother, I hope to remain true to GNO. To our own Dirty Girls Social Club... I love you girls. I can't wait until the next time.