Exiliotrópolis is a city that refuses to die. A city made up of everything I once tried to leave behind: my culture, my roots, my fears, even my pride. And yet, that city is also what keeps me standing. My voice, my way of seeing, my need to tell this. Because I couldn’t create without that fracture, without that wound that defines me as much as it hurts me.

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