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In this quote, Lourdes, the eldest del Pino daughter, reflects on her feelings about being a Cuban immigrant in the United States. She relishes the opportunity for reinvention that moving to the United States has given her, and she especially appreciates the unfamiliar season of winter, which had no parallel in her tropical homeland. Winter’s “layers” symbolically protect Lourdes against the types of violations she experienced while living in Cuba—being raped by Revolutionary soldiers and also having her in-laws’ lands wrested away. Because Cuba is associated so strongly in Lourdes’s mind with the assault she suffered, as well as her…