Gustavo

It is so important to keep that connection through socialization, family members or not family members, because that is the connection to home. Home is a thought right now for a lot of Venezuelans. It's not a place.

It's a real challenge.

It's a real challenge.

It's a real challenge.

one and again I get it I have a real longing for that in my own family because that is not how we operate our family I've said this on the show I've told Astrid this I've probably told my therapist this a million times in my culture and by culture I mean the family that I grew up in and the people and the extended family members we have gatherings are not a thing you linger it's not a place where you linger it's a place where you get together for a minute and

one and again I get it I have a real longing for that in my own family because that is not how we operate our family I've said this on the show I've told Astrid this I've probably told my therapist this a million times in my culture and by culture I mean the family that I grew up in and the people and the extended family members we have gatherings are not a thing you linger it's not a place where you linger it's a place where you get together for a minute and

one and again I get it I have a real longing for that in my own family because that is not how we operate our family I've said this on the show I've told Astrid this I've probably told my therapist this a million times in my culture and by culture I mean the family that I grew up in and the people and the extended family members we have gatherings are not a thing you linger it's not a place where you linger it's a place where you get together for a minute and

And then you go, right? And then you're out. You don't linger. No one spends the night. You know how many times I spent the night at my grandma's house on my mom's side? Twice. Really? Maybe. Maybe twice. That's weird. We would literally go to a hotel before we would spend the night. That's weird. It's very strange.

And then you go, right? And then you're out. You don't linger. No one spends the night. You know how many times I spent the night at my grandma's house on my mom's side? Twice. Really? Maybe. Maybe twice. That's weird. We would literally go to a hotel before we would spend the night. That's weird. It's very strange.

And then you go, right? And then you're out. You don't linger. No one spends the night. You know how many times I spent the night at my grandma's house on my mom's side? Twice. Really? Maybe. Maybe twice. That's weird. We would literally go to a hotel before we would spend the night. That's weird. It's very strange.

Now that I've been embedded in this culture for so long, I see just how strange that really was.

Now that I've been embedded in this culture for so long, I see just how strange that really was.

Now that I've been embedded in this culture for so long, I see just how strange that really was.

I think it's the biggest, I think it's one of the biggest blessings you can give a child. It's one of the biggest blessings you can impart on someone like me who doesn't have it is the longing for connection with family in that way.

I think it's the biggest, I think it's one of the biggest blessings you can give a child. It's one of the biggest blessings you can impart on someone like me who doesn't have it is the longing for connection with family in that way.

I think it's the biggest, I think it's one of the biggest blessings you can give a child. It's one of the biggest blessings you can impart on someone like me who doesn't have it is the longing for connection with family in that way.

Now it still takes some getting used to, and it doesn't mean that you're always, you're ever like a hundred, like as someone as an outsider, I might always be just a little bit outside the actual, like the actual culture then that way.

Now it still takes some getting used to, and it doesn't mean that you're always, you're ever like a hundred, like as someone as an outsider, I might always be just a little bit outside the actual, like the actual culture then that way.

Now it still takes some getting used to, and it doesn't mean that you're always, you're ever like a hundred, like as someone as an outsider, I might always be just a little bit outside the actual, like the actual culture then that way.

But I long for, and I love, that Astrid gets to stay up till three in the morning, hanging out with her family. I think it's beautiful, I really do.