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My Puerto Rican Grandmother

December 29, 2009 by Christina

In the Puerto Rican culture “la abuela” (grandmother) is a revered and honored position.   My “abuela” was no different.   Grandma Sarah and Grandpa Carlos migrated from Santurce, Puerto Rico to New York in 1949.  Their first residence was a tenement house in the South Bronx. Over the course of several years they would move from the Bronx, to Manhattan’s East Side (Spanish Harlem), and ultimately to the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.  With barely a sixth grade education Grandma overcame tremendous odds.  She raised three biological children, fostered four, adopted one, and mothered  eight grandchildren at various stages.  In the Puerto Rican culture, it is not unusual to find three generations living together underneath one roof.  Indeed, that was the case at my “abuela’s” house.  Grandma turned her little house on 57th Street into a refuge for many throughout the years.   Click here to read the rest.

I will be sumbitting this tomorrow to a “Family History Writing Contest.” Winners will not be announced until May 2010.

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  1. Jackie says

    December 30, 2009 at 9:22 am

    I love it! Brings back alot of memories in the household I grew up in. I pray you win this contest, you have an awesome talent in writing. Keep it up!

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