This was a neat little memento while cleaning the house one day. Our house used to be my great-grandparents so there is a lot of their things still lingering around. I was named after my great-grandma, Severina. Her name was originally Seberina but it got mixed up when she moved here from Mexico. It's amazing to live in an area where most people are immigrants themselves or only 1st or 2nd generation US nationals (like me on one side). In most parts of the country families have been rooted in the states for generations but here the influx of immigrants grows each year. And it has a huge bearing on the development of culture and customs in this part of Texas.
Borderlands is an ongoing photography project that features anecdotes from our life in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
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