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   Before The Next Teardrop Falls by despeinada

   Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   25 Aug 2023

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Tina (The Bear TV 2022)
   • Tina Marrero
   • Richard "Richie" Jerimovich
   • Michael "Mikey" Berzatto
   • Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto
   • Ebraheim (The Bear TV 2022)
   • Character Study
   • Pre-S1
   • I love Tina so much and I wanted to give her more of a backstory
   • Tina Marrero reminds me of so many women I know
   • There aren't enough stories/fics focused on older women and I want to fix that!!!
   • There will be Spanglish in this
   • Tags to be added as I keep writing
   • Vignettes
   • lots of swearing
   • Swearing in multiple languages even
   • Dialogue Heavy

   Summary

   Tina didn’t love to cook. She didn’t hate it, either. It was simply an action she performed, over and over again, because she had to.

   A series of vignettes following Tina’s journey from being The Beef’s best line cook to sous chef at The Bear, in the tradition of «The House on Mango Street» by Sandra Cisneros.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   7,014

   Chapters:

   4/?

   Comments:

   39

   Kudos:

   74

   Bookmarks:

   12

   Hits:

   644

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