“Lo siento mucho. Me pongo de rodillas para pedir perdón.”
And that, perhaps, is the only apology any of us ever really receives: the one we learn to give ourselves. “Lo siento mucho
So why would my mother — a reserved Midwestern woman — be associated with such an act? And why in Spanish? I spent weeks digging through old family photos, voice memos, and WhatsApp chats (backed up on my Android, of course). Then I found it: a voice note from 2019, sent by my mother after a trip to Mexico City. She had taken a beginner’s Spanish class at a community center and was practicing phrases. “Lo siento mucho