There Was A Latin Mass

It has been warming up. It was cold this winter, and it warmed up and then it became cold again. But now it's warm.
And there was like a civil war in Argentina because the left-wing guerrilla, urban guerrilla, was fighting against the state, and the state was attacking them and putting them in concentration camps and torturing them and killing them. And I would take the bus from my home to the university, and I would never know if I would come home alive. And there was a lot of politics, and university college students were very politicized.

So it was very—I had been brought up in a very sheltered sense, so going out to the university and experiencing all this was really frightening. It was frightening. But at the same time, I was sort of rebellious.

And when I was asked to show my ID by the checkpoints that were in Buenos Aires, I would rebel. It was an interesting childhood. I don't know how much more you want me to talk about.

Well, just going off of that, you're—I'm sorry, you're going to have to mute your mic. I'm sorry, Serena. It's interesting, because going off of that, it must have been quite a culture—a shock when you did come to America, or rather when you stepped out of that, outside of your upbringing, outside of the, I guess, the shelter that had been built for you.

And what did you find when you sort of—I guess when you graduated college and, you know, figured out, hey, the world wasn't everything that it had sort of been cracked up to be. What was that like? Well, there's a part that I didn't mention, which I think is important for my story, which is that I was— well, when I started going to church, to Mass, it was before the Vatican II Council. So women—there was a Latin Mass, and women used to cover their heads.