Okwuosa, “a lot,” which is the highest compliment available.

She calls me Tía.

She calls Hugo Papo, which nobody taught her and which she arrived at herself at about two and a half and which ruined him.

And she calls my sister Mamá.

That was decided in a room by four adults and a therapist in the January of 2023 and I want it on the record that I was not the one who argued for it hardest.

Marguerite Stiles was, in a family meeting, in about nine words: she has a mother, the mother’s alive, use the word.