This summer to improve my Spanish I’m following the Colombian telenovela “Correo de Inocentes.”

Its main character Pilar Carrazco faces some hard times when her baby girl suffers a life-threatening kidney disease. Pilar is both a loving and courageous mother who will do anything to save the life of her child. This includes participating in a desperate drug smuggling caper to pay for an operation. One thing leads to another, and Pilar ends up doing eight years in a Mexican Women’s Prison.

Fortunately, the baby is saved. The rest of the novella details Pilar’s fight to regain her life and daughter. Here, as a sample blog post for a writing assignment, I try to imagine what type of tattoo Pilar would have chosen to put on her back….