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“I try to be strong, not to show my family my pain.” - Jazmin Nazario
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‘Enjoy the little things … ’
Jazmin Nazario recalls an affectionate life with her mother.
Whenever she dreams about her mother - four times so far since September - Jazmin writes down her dreams.
In one, her mother is giving her aunt instructions about how to raise her. "Don't give her so much food," Isabel tells Mimi.
In another, Jazmin says, "I am looking through the window of a mansion and I see this woman. She looks like my mother. I tell her, I know you're dead, just give me a hug for the last time. Then she tells me not to change who I am as a person, and the sofa she's sitting on turns to thorns."
The third starts out with the death of a Philadelphia police officer. "My mother is crying and I tell her I want her to stop being a police officer because I don't want that happening to her. But she says she has to, to pay for my college tuition."
That one, Jazmin says, "is the one that hurts the most."
Contact staff writer Melissa Dribben at 215-854-2590 or mdribben@phillynews.com.
