Listen to Tisa Marie Reichle-Aguilera read “Get Back On” in her interview with The Collective. * When Uncle Edward got a new horse for his fancy shows, he gave me his gentle old mare, Pearl, for my seventh birthday. She was the best present ever. “That’s a hand-me-down horse,” my cousin Maritza said when we met Uncle Edward at his friend’s place. “My birthday present is gonna be new.” She wrinkled her nose. “And not smelly.” I didn’t care about her...
