Diana Leaney López Ruano

I want to say so much about the nothing that I feel. There is loneliness in the absence of hope,  and it fills you to the point you don't know what is real and what is not. Who are we? Who are we but beings going through a rough time trying to do human things and then realizing that we are more than our actions. Cortes. That is my new last name.  Add Lopez to the end of it and I realize that I lost my mother's name.  What does that mean? Cortes Lopez No longer Lopez Ruano.  No longer Sister Lopez,  but Hermana Cortes.  Or to be more specific,  Hermanita Cortes because my mother in law has the main role. Who am I? What is a wife? Married. Married people wear wedding rings Married people Marriage. "Marriage is hard." Everyone says that,  but they don't tell you the pain of losing your identity.