Mar 5, 2020
8 min read
Denzel’s Melody, DACA dance & Disappearing Dad
An immigrant story of trauma and love
Denzel Mendoza loved his student model King 606 trombone so much he would shower and sleep with it as a sixth grader, his mother, Melody Lumbang-Stevens recalls.
“He’d come back from school and take a shower and clean the trombone, and he’d sleep beside the trombone,” she laughs, still marveling…
