Tia Mirta ***DW 2007***

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Tia Mirta DW 2007

This on was inpired by March31-1. Also for the special challenge. the journaling reads: She is one of the strongest women I know. She fled Cuba on a 12’ paddle boat, after the Cuban government was looking for them to execute them. She and a few of her friends were lost at sea for 20 days, sipping rain water among other things that I will allow your imagination to run free. Once she arrived they ended up on a small Island of Key West. She moved to New Jersey and lived with a friend of her boyfriend at the time. She was 18 years old. She grew up very fast, worked very hard to be able to bring her parents and as many of her 7 siblings with their families to this country as possible. The first to come was her brother and his family, then her sister my mother, father and 3 children. After that my mother and uncle would help financially to bring the rest of them for which only 2 more sisters and her mother and father were able to come. 3 stayed behind for another 25 years. Once we arrived I remember her taking us to her house to eat. She made mash potato, corn and smoked pork chop, I made the horrific mistake of saying that I don’t eat American food. After telling me how many children are starving in India, let alone Cuba she shoved that food down my throat, my adoration for her began. She showed me how to eat all kinds of foods sometimes in a nice way other in a not so nice way. She married that boyfriend who came with her on the boat. She never had children so we my brother, sister and me were her children. She has been there for me in my darkest nights, in the most devastating moments of my life she is always there. I know that if it is 2:00am and I am in need or in any kind of trouble, I can count on her, but not only count on her, but know that no matter what she will never judge me, but would love me and advise me. As a teen she was there for me, if I had to mush to drink I would call her, then after hearing her speech, she would pick me up and drive me home. As a young adult, she helped me out of a very abusive relationship without even looking back. When Jaime was diagnosed with a horrible mental illness she was there with me, when he refused to take his pills and was ruining our life’s she helped me not feel sorry for him and move on with my life and that of my children. She is my guardian angel. And for that I adore her,TFL