I know I have been sooo busy making up my home for the Holidays, but in between all the hub-bub of the season, when I lay down to sleep at night, I think of what really matters. Of the people that matter in my life. And one of them is visiting me this month. I am speaking about a very important and influential woman in my life-my grandmother. My grandmother Aurora (whom I was named after) is one of two people who helped to shape a little skinny girl's life. My grandma raised me part of the time while my mother worked when we still lived in Mexico. She taught me how to read and write at the age of four (the newspaper!!) because she did not go to school herself and did not want her granddaughter growing up to be a "useless woman" (her words). When I lay awake at night I remember. ...
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