Sonia Manzano
speaker
283 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Sonia Manzano’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The fence is topped with barbed wire and winds between the shrubs, climbs dry hillsides, zigzags capriciously, and extends into the ocean for about 100 yards.
It stands tall and threatening, rusting in the sunlight, the northernmost limit of a dream gone bad.
People peer through it, projecting hopes and a new version of themselves beyond the ice patrols.
There is no escape from this place.
I came to Tijuana four years ago after the accident.
I remember that when I arrived, I just had the stitches removed from the wound on my leg, which looked a little like a bird's eye view of that frontier line.
For a time, I tried to carry on as normal back in Mexico City.
I went to work and said thanks when offered condolences.
I smiled when people looked at me in pity, pretending I didn't know what they were saying behind my back.
That's the lady who killed her mother.
But I didn't kill my mom.
It was an accident.
There's no reason why I should smile if I damn well don't feel like it.
At night, my husband would turn on the TV and fall asleep in front of it.
In the bedroom, I'd pretend to be asleep, and I did, in fact, sometimes doze for 20 minutes or half an hour before waking again as if I'd been shaken.
In the early hours, my husband would come to bed and kiss my forehead, but we weren't really together, just...
sharing a refrigerator and increasingly profound silence.
I was given a lot of advice during the first weeks.
Meditate, see a therapist, find a lover, give up sugar.
The only tip I followed was the one that took me by surprise.
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