Gaviota —

I’m on the phone with Mami while she sits next to Papi with her phone on speaker. “So I’m going to visit my friend in Chicago and then I’m going to stop through Boston on the way back to see my other friend.” I tell them.

“Of course you are,” Mami says. “ You’re our gaviota. Siempre volando, siempre andando.”

That’s their nickname for me, seagull. They think I can’t sit still which they’re wrong about. But they’re not…