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Puerto Rico, My Love: 5 Years Ago Today, I Married Puerto Rico and Why It is for Keeps [1]

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Date: 2022-11-01

Photo by Boricua Sandy, 2017

5 years ago today I married Puerto Rico. It was an effort to gather material aid and raise awareness about the impact of Hurricane Maria. Puerto Ricans across the archipelago were still in the dark. It was becoming more and more apparent that the death toll was much higher than officials declared. In the vast diaspora, many Puerto Ricans with close ties to family and friends were engaged in intense efforts to get material aid and supplies to our loved ones.

x The wedding did not come out of nowhere. It was not a publicity stunt or a whimsical idea. It came out of a community effort. On a day I volunteered to load a container at El Maestro's Cultural Center and Boxing Gym in the South Bronx, the idea came when somone said she created pic.twitter.com/mKtTcYX0F1 — Mariposa Fernández (@LaPoetaMariposa) November 2, 2022

The wedding did not come out of nowhere. It was not a publicity stunt or a whimsical idea. It came out of a community effort of Puerto Rican community in New York City, specifically The Bronx. On a day I volunteered to load a container at El Maestro's Cultural Center and Boxing Gym in the South Bronx, the idea came when somone said she created a wedding registry to make it easy for friends and family to send her items that she planned to take to Puerto Rico herself in suitcases. To take a long story, short, it inspired a wedding!

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