Lisette Alvarez
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598 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2021
last heard Apr 2021
Lisette Alvarez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When I got old enough, she encouraged me to write them myself.
Then she graduated high school, skipped college, and got a job right away.
She had big plans.
I remember the first day I went to visit her.
It was so gray,
The men all wore cheap gray suits, and the women were talking into clunky plastic headsets.
They moved slowly, mechanically, like wooden puppets on half-cut strings, while the paint peeled from the walls.
And there was my sister.
Her eyes glued to her computer screen as she typed on her keyboard.
She didn't even seem to notice the flowers on her desk were dying.
I tried to shake her out of it, tried to get her to laugh at just one joke, tell me just one story, to smile at me just once, hell, to even look at me for more than a second before turning back to her computer or her phone.
But she wouldn't.
She brushed me off, told me to grow up.
Open your eyes, Reina.
This is what life looks like, she snapped.
You can't live in a fairy tale.
I couldn't help but stare at the goblin sitting two cubicles away from her.
And I'm the one who needs to open my eyes.
And in that moment, it was clear as fairy wings.
I don't remember a time I couldn't see past the call or when magic wasn't a part of my life.
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