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I lived in Venezuela until I was 7, when my family moved to the U.S. Her parents are from Mexico, and took her and her sisters on frequent visits to their hometown in Jalisco. Lizzie and I both come from immigrant families. But in time, we discovered our friendship had changed in one important way, one we'd never had the language to describe before.Īlt.Latino Shakira And Jennifer Lopez's Halftime Show Unpacked In a lot of ways, it was just like we were 14 again: We watched scary movies, took her dog on long walks, spent hours and hours digging through sweaters at Value Village. While I finished my last semester as a journalism major, I became an unofficial roommate at the apartment she shared with her boyfriend, spending all my time outside of class on their couch.

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Sitting across from her, a giant plate of mac and cheese and chicken tenders between us, I told her my big news. She'd just moved downtown and didn't have many friends in the area, and my social calendar was suddenly wide open. We'd drifted apart shortly before college, but now we were both looking to reconnect. Lizzie and I grew up together in a suburb outside Atlanta: She lived down the street from my cousins and we went to the same middle and high school. For support, I asked an old friend to come along. On what would have been my first Valentine's Day alone in years, I decided to stop moping and take myself to the newly opened Hattie B's Hot Chicken, a Nashville chain whose business had spread to Georgia. Ignacio Gurruchaga/Courtesy of Sony MusicĪ year ago, my first real relationship came to an end.

Shakira onstage during her MTV Unplugged performance, recorded in New York in 1999 and released as a live album in early 2000.