#damn this bitch loves her parentheses doesnt she

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Ximena Salamanca (born July 1979)

"I did the whole ignorance thing. Got old. So if you think I'm buying the 'old workplace buddy' crap, you must really take me for an idiot."

fc Gina Rodriguez

You can't pull the wool over Ximena Salamanca's eyes anymore (she's perfectly adequate of doing that to herself). Lead cartographer for the UN and living the single life. It's hard to move on when you're a widow. It's ten times harder when you're also fatherless, motherless, brotherless, and cousinless. Basically almost every relative-less.

Can't shake that gentle, cautious optimism and quiet hope despite herself. For all that life's taken from her, being on her own has afforded her a greater confidence and harder shell. She's almost content having her weekends in, making bad pasta and listening to Italian disco (she's not quite as fluent in the language as she was back in college, but she can definitely tell you what most of the lyrics mean. She knows you didn't ask, but she's going to tell you anyway).

She's ready to welcome joy back into her life with open arms. Whenever it's ready to find her.