| Fountain Wishes by Jennese "La Diva" Torres |
| Old San Juan Rainbow Photo: yeckart.com |
| Three years later, I made a trip to Puerto Rico. I was excited to meet Frances a.k.a FountainWish. I never asked what she looked like and she didn’t either. I think it’s irrelevant, superfluous, almost ingenious to ask. Who cares? She could have been anything – tall/short, fat/skinny, black/white. Did it really matter? I didn’t even tell her what I was going to be wearing and she didn’t tell me either. How was I going to find her? Well, I found a shirt that said in big bold colorful letters DIVA NYC. If that didn’t describe me - nothing would! What if she had thick glasses? Or walked with a limp or something! Turned out she looked like she could have been my cousin! We walked all around Old San Juan that day. She showed me the sites and we ate fresh oranges. Then we passed by a fountain. I was still busy trying to eat my orange when she literally runs to the fountain! She says to my son, “Do you know how to make a wish?” I'm thinking - Yeah you make a wish! There’s nothing to it, right? She searched for a coin in her pocket and gave him specific instructions. I was too busy eating my orange to hear the whole thing. I know she told him that he had to turn around and throw it in backwards over his head and then she tossed the coin! I looked at the coin flipping through the air and thought – I had no idea there was a whole art to making a wish! Then it hit me! FountainWish! Of course! Of course! It was magic watching “FountainWish” teach my son how to make a fountain wish! |
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I was known for belting out quick, little known Latino
stats in my emails. I would sprinkle jokes in between
the stats and figures as I blasted whatever negative
article I was complaining about. I began to think that
my email list should be a little larger. But, of course, I
laughed it off.
One day, one of my emails reached a complete
stranger hundreds of miles away in Puerto Rico. This
stranger’s email address was oddly enough
“FountainWish”. FountainWish emailed me saying she
couldn’t stop laughing at my email concerning a racist
article against Latinos in a popular mainstream
magazine.
I answered this stranger and from there a friendship
ensued and the jokes kept coming as I would spitfire
anyone who dared print anything negative about
Latinos.
One day FountainWish dared say what even I wouldn’t
dare to say, “Hey, why don’t you make your own
magazine! Make it funny, make it smart! Let everyone
know all those facts and figures that you carry around
in your head but always keep the jokes.” In typical
fashion, I quickly fired back saying, “Now you're the
comedian if you think I’m going to quit law school to
start my own magazine!” But I said it! I uttered the
words “start my own magazine”.
Making excuses for myself, I said, “If I could think of a
good name then I’ll do it.” I thought and thought and
couldn’t come up with a name. I decided to let
FountainWish know that it was no use and that “if I can’t
think of a good name then I will not do it.” Right before I
clicked SEND I saw the name. It was right there all
along! You see the TO: was “FountainWish” and the
From: was “LaDivaLatina”! I never did send that
email. I clicked away on the internet and bought the
domain name. The rest is history!
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