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My Mother & Father's Wedding
anonymouscuban
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Last year this month, I traveled to Cuba for the first time in my life. While I was visiting my uncle on my mother side, he pulled out an album of some very old photos. The album belonged to my mother. She left it behind when my parents left Cuba. As I understand it, my parents' departure was very hurried and she wasn't able to bring it with her. Fortunately, I was able to bring it back, albeit, over 40 years later. This is the only photo that survived of their wedding. This is a picture I took of the photo. This would have been about 50+ years ago, taken in the town of Jaruco, which is in the province of Havana, about 30 KM or so from Old Habana.
This is a picture I took of my wife sitting in the park that is across the street from the church my parents were married in. This too is in the town of Jaruco where my parents lived. It was very surreal to see these sites in person. I heard so many stories growing up about this park and how my father would sing and read poetry to my mother on the steps fo the park during their courtship. She would laugh when she recalled that her parents would make her younger brother accompany her and my dad would give him money so he could go buy himself a pop or candy to give them time alone. Different times.
This is a picture I took of my wife sitting in the park that is across the street from the church my parents were married in. This too is in the town of Jaruco where my parents lived. It was very surreal to see these sites in person. I heard so many stories growing up about this park and how my father would sing and read poetry to my mother on the steps fo the park during their courtship. She would laugh when she recalled that her parents would make her younger brother accompany her and my dad would give him money so he could go buy himself a pop or candy to give them time alone. Different times.
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Awwwwww ... I wish those times would come back, sounds wonderful
Beautiful photos, both of them. I bet your parents were really happy to have at least one of the photos back.
(p.s. I wonder what kind of car it was, loooove old Cuban cars
Thanks for sharing
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It's quite interesting because my parents named me Alexander, not Alejandro which is the Spanish name. I am American, which they remind me constantly and they wanted me to have an American name. Another thing I found out much later in life is that my grandmother's - dad's mom - dying wish was that my father have an American born son. My father never mentioned this to me and it wasn't until my 30's that I found out from another family member. Not sure why but I became very emotional when I was told that.
I plan on going back next year for longer this time. I want to spend more time with my family, which I only met last year. I also want to see more of Cuba, other provinces. I want to fish in a river that my father used to fish in. I grew up fishing with my father and he would always tell stories of how him and his friends would camp out near the river and fish for several days.
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+1. Thanks so much for letting have a peek into your life.
I don't know if you read the paper today (and without making it a political comment) but Raul Castro announced the layoff of a half million gov't workers and some changes that would make it easier for private industry to hire those workers. Maybe change is coming sooner than we thought?
I didn't catch that... will have to read. I did read report a few weeks back that talked about how little work there is. I had a conversation about this very topic with my uncle while i was there. He basically summed up the situation like this... he said if there is a ditch that needs to be dug that only requires to men to dig it, they send 12 guys because they have nothing else to do. But then the ditch never gets dug because no one wants to be the guy doing the digging.
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