As Lopes reflects on her time with MAPS, she grows quiet.
"This really is my second family," Lopes says.
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But Lopes says she still misses Portugal, despite the community that MAPS provides and the stores that sell imported Portuguese delicacies.
She has returned to Portugal to visit 19 times over the past 30 years. What keeps her coming back is her children.
"Every day I miss Portugal, but I just can't leave," she says.
It's just not the same here, Lopes says.
"America is no good for old people because of the language, the climate," she pauses to think. "We don't have friends here like we do in Portugal."
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