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Puerto Rico in the 1940’s
I have read so much about Puerto Rico in its earliest decades after Spain turned it over to the United States. Poverty was rampant, as the island struggled in its new status as a US territory. My...
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Patterns
My journey to boarding school began because two people were wed and never should have. High school sweethearts, my parents married on a snowy day in mid April 1959 in a Catholic church on the West Side...
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Flying Solo
At the end of my kindergarten year, my mother decided to send me to Puerto Rico for the summer, just as my grandmother had done with her when she was a child. My mother would spend part of the time...
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Scrubbed
Bath time marked the start of the evening during my summer with my aunt and uncle. In Puerto Rico, most people shower before dinner. (I’ve always thought that savvy burglars could take this...
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