So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.
I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.
Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.
I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.
My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.