Hola, this is Two Time Zones, One Calendar, and I am Rodrigo. Last time you heard my own story, with a six-hour gap and a lot of flights. Today's distance is shorter on a map and much harder in real life. Luis lives in Oaxaca. Brenda lives in Houston. They married in 2022, and they filed his visa paperwork the same month. It has still not arrived. Brenda can visit him. Luis cannot visit her. In 2024 their daughter was born in a hospital in Houston while Luis watched on a phone leaning against a water bottle on a table in Oaxaca. I spoke with each of them alone first, then with both together, with the baby asleep on Brenda's shoulder. It is a story about waiting, and about not letting waiting become your whole life. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.