My roots have taken place in two different places, really far away from each other.
I truly don’t know my dad’s family because he has a story, and it is amazing but at the same time depressing. I know my grandmother and I knew my grandfather, one time his parents. But they aren’t my family, my dad always told me to forget everything but the only thing that I can think when I looked at them is that they are guilty, and nothing will change that. At least they took care of him in Tulcan and then they had a journey to here, Quito. At least they never let him do drugs or stuff like that, something that could had happened if he had stayed in Colombia. I just can say that my father is unique and that makes me unique as well because I’m his daughter.
On the other hand, I have my mother and the gossip among the family will never stop. I absolutely admire my mom, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother. I can’t believe that my great-grandmother is still alive, but I can say that she has one of the most incredible stories; my brother always says that we have to hire a writer and tell him to write a book called: “Juanita La Huerfanita”. Because Juana, my great-grandmother, lost her parents when she was just a kid, but they gave her a lot of inheritance. I’m not kidding, they left her literally two entire mountains and some lands around Cocotog, one place in the countryside just nest to I live right know. That’s why my mother’s family dedicates to agriculture. My mom doesn’t do that anymore because she has a work as a teacher and she has no time for that, but I always admire her to study with all the limitations she had and thank her to give me everything she would have wanted at my age. She was the Queen of Gualo and she’s the Queen of my hearth.
In my generation I have my brother and my cousins and I don’t think I´m going to have children. We are a lot! And my brother fucked up and that’s why I’m afraid. The only thing that I can offer are my two gorgeous daughters: My kitty called Catalina Maria and my dog called Kira Nikolasa.