Born From Conflict, Raised in Love: Rachel Aponte on Family, Reconciliation, and Learning She's Enough

Send us Fan Mail A family can love you deeply and still place you in the middle of a war you never asked for. My niece Rachel Aponte joins me for a raw, funny, and surprisingly tender conversation about being born to teen parents and growing up as the oldest grandchild on both sides of a Puerto Rican family split by conflict, resentment, and years of forced "cordial" moments at big events. We talk about what it does to a kid when tension is the baseline: becoming conflict-averse, taking on ad...