Julieta Martinelli

Mellon makes grants to support divisionaries and communities that unlock the power of the arts and humanities to help connect us all. More at Mellon.org. Season 2 of Suave was made possible in part by Public Welfare Foundation, catalyzing transformative approaches to justice that are community-led, restorative, and racially just.

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Season two of Suave was made possible by the Mellon Foundation. Mellon makes grants to support visionaries and communities that unlock the power of the arts and humanities to help connect us all. More at Mellon.org.

Season two of Suave was made possible by the Mellon Foundation. Mellon makes grants to support visionaries and communities that unlock the power of the arts and humanities to help connect us all. More at Mellon.org.

Season two of Suave was made possible by the Mellon Foundation. Mellon makes grants to support visionaries and communities that unlock the power of the arts and humanities to help connect us all. More at Mellon.org.

Because, like, the truth is, things have been really touch and go between me and Suave for a while now, like a couple of months. And this trip was definitely at a low point. You know, we hadn't really been speaking before we left. But I really wanted us to have a good time and for this to really be about Suave and him reconnecting with his island.

Because, like, the truth is, things have been really touch and go between me and Suave for a while now, like a couple of months. And this trip was definitely at a low point. You know, we hadn't really been speaking before we left. But I really wanted us to have a good time and for this to really be about Suave and him reconnecting with his island.

Because, like, the truth is, things have been really touch and go between me and Suave for a while now, like a couple of months. And this trip was definitely at a low point. You know, we hadn't really been speaking before we left. But I really wanted us to have a good time and for this to really be about Suave and him reconnecting with his island.

Suave, can you just tell me what you're seeing right now?

Suave, can you just tell me what you're seeing right now?

Suave, can you just tell me what you're seeing right now?

So the last time Suave was here, he says that he was like seven or eight years old. He'd spent some summers with his grandfather. But that time, he stayed almost a whole year. So he's eager to see everything all at once, in a way. But so far, it just doesn't feel like the Puerto Rico that he remembers.

So the last time Suave was here, he says that he was like seven or eight years old. He'd spent some summers with his grandfather. But that time, he stayed almost a whole year. So he's eager to see everything all at once, in a way. But so far, it just doesn't feel like the Puerto Rico that he remembers.

So the last time Suave was here, he says that he was like seven or eight years old. He'd spent some summers with his grandfather. But that time, he stayed almost a whole year. So he's eager to see everything all at once, in a way. But so far, it just doesn't feel like the Puerto Rico that he remembers.

Let me see if this sand is hot. Yeah, there is. So we drop our bags at our hotel. We walk across the street, literally, and we're on the beach now, just in time for the sunset. And honestly, this had been a dream of mine to witness Suave encountering the ocean in Puerto Rico for the first time since he was a child. And yeah, he walks out to the water.

Let me see if this sand is hot. Yeah, there is. So we drop our bags at our hotel. We walk across the street, literally, and we're on the beach now, just in time for the sunset. And honestly, this had been a dream of mine to witness Suave encountering the ocean in Puerto Rico for the first time since he was a child. And yeah, he walks out to the water.

Let me see if this sand is hot. Yeah, there is. So we drop our bags at our hotel. We walk across the street, literally, and we're on the beach now, just in time for the sunset. And honestly, this had been a dream of mine to witness Suave encountering the ocean in Puerto Rico for the first time since he was a child. And yeah, he walks out to the water.

And so even though we had been fighting, Suave and me, like not talking, it was kind of tense. La verdad es que all of that started to melt away. And it was just so sweet, you know, me dio tanta ternura to see him on the island of Puerto Rico, like feeling free and looking like so happy.