We — Vero and Mel, the editors of this package — work on two separate teams at Bustle Digital Group. We grew up on opposite ends of the country, look nothing alike (save for our height, or lack thereof), and have totally different relationships with being Latinx.
Vero was born in Venezuela, grew up in Miami, and spoke Spanish at home, while Mel is half-Jewish, half-Puerto Rican, and learned Spanish as an adult. But when we first started talking about this project back in January 2019...
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