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Valió la peña

Melanie Peña Bombino January 24, 2024January 20, 2024

I remember asking my mom once, “Why didn’t you put the eñe in my paperwork?”

There was an invisible little squiggle over the n in my last name. It signified that the Peña was pronounced pen-ya, not pen-a. While most of my classmates grew up knowing and never questioning their names, I didn’t fully understand mine until I was ten … Read moreValió la peña

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