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Carmina & Cassy: Becoming, Together and Apart

Once inseparable, now evolving—Carmina Villarroel-Legaspi and Cassy Legaspi reckon with what it means to carry each other, and to stand on their own.

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There is a truth about mothers and daughters that most people only understand much later. That before anything else, before names, before memory, before the idea of “mother” and “child,” they begin as the same body. Held together by an umbilical cord. Sustained by it, dependent on it. For a time, there is no separation. What one feels, the other carries. What one becomes, the other makes possible. And then, inevitably, the cord is cut. It is supposed to end there. That is how life moves forward. You separate, grow, and become your own person, but it never really ends. Because years later, in ways that are harder to name, that connection finds its way back. In the way a daughter speaks and hears her mother in her own voice. In the habits she swears she chose for herself, but somehow did not. In the moments she understands something without […]

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