April 15th is my dad's birthday, he would have been 90 today.
I love that black and off- white sofa; it is the first sofa i can remember as a child. I think it was left in the house when mom and dad bought the place.
When mom could not get back across the border legally, she was back to where she started from. Somehow, dad found out that she was back in town and goes to see her. In Mexico there is a saying: otra vez, el
burro al maiz! It has something to do with the donkey who wont stay out of the corn field. He offers to help her again!
Maybe father opened up and said he wanted to be with the woman he was married to, not the woman he was having children with at the time. That sweet talker. In any case, i suppose dad told her if she really wanted to live in the U.S., he would do all he could to get her papers back and they would go live there, but only if they were together.
Maybe it was a case of "the devil you know", as mom used to say; and dad was devilish at times, from what i heard. Maybe she was tired and beaten, but i'm speculating again; once you open one door, you want to open others. He got back her legal resident status, it wasn't easy; he actually petitioned for a pardon on her behalf; there were bus trips to the U.S. consulate in Monterrey-- well, it was a whole thing.
There is still the issue of dad's relationship with this other woman; well, it's at this point, when mom becomes dad's wife, that she becomes his mistress, because he does not end that relationship.
That woman's youngest son is younger than my little sister.
Marrige is the glue that bonds society, which is essencial for the formation of culture. Without culture you have Fox News, Nicholas Sparks, and chicken McNuggets.
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