{"id":6027,"date":"2026-05-20T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abara.org\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:20:06","slug":"i-have-undrowned-a-bittersweet-monthly-story-about-abara-and-the-borderlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abara.org\/es\/i-have-undrowned-a-bittersweet-monthly-story-about-abara-and-the-borderlands\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe Desahogado\u201d: Una historia agridulce mensual sobre Abara y las Tierras Fronterizas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What does peace look like at the border? <\/strong> For Abara, it looks like a friendship waved through a fence. A blank book filled with recipes, drawings, and goodbyes from people far from home. A bakery in Ju\u00e1rez sending fresh bread to migrant shelters every day. A woman named Lica sitting across from 40 strangers, asking them to tell her about their Christmases, their dogs, their home.<\/p>\n<p>BitterSweet Monthly writer <a href=\"https:\/\/bittersweetmonthly.com\/contributors\/kate-schmidgall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Schmidgall<\/a> and photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/bittersweetmonthly.com\/contributors\/stephen-jeter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Jeter<\/a> traveled to El Paso and Ju\u00e1rez to spend time with the people at the heart of Abara&#8217;s work \u2014 Rosa, Abara&#8217;s coordinator of migrant services; Yorch, the baker and artist whose murals turn resistance into beauty; and Roberto, whose home on R\u00edo Bravo Drive faces the border fence and the friends he&#8217;s made on the other side of it.<\/p>\n<p>The title of their piece comes from a word Lica heard again and again from the people she sat with through Abara&#8217;s Asylum Narrative Project. In Spanish, desahogar \u2014 to un-drown. To let the water out of the lungs. To finally be heard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bittersweetmonthly.com\/stories\/abara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Read &#8220;I Have Undrowned&#8221; on BitterSweet Monthly \u2192]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00bfC\u00f3mo se ve la paz en la frontera? Para Abara, se ve como una amistad saludando a trav\u00e9s de una cerca. Un libro en blanco lleno de recetas, dibujos y despedidas de personas lejos de casa. Una panader\u00eda en Ju\u00e1rez enviando pan fresco a los refugios de migrantes todos los d\u00edas. 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