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Source of pixabay Since I was a child I liked to go to school, I started at Colegio Santa Teresita de Jesús, since we lived in the center of Cumaná. My mother with her five children. We had to emigrate

In early 1987, the country's economic situation began to deteriorate. I came up with an idea. I traveled from the city of Cumana to Margarita Island to buy merchandise, since at that time there was a free

In mid-December 1999, my sister María Teresa, a teacher, retired from the Ministry of Education, was very affectionate, with a strong character in the face of any adversity. She lived on the Litoral, in

In the city of Cumaná-Venezuela, in one of the neighbourhoods next to mine, lives in a very nice house, my comadre Isabel, who is older than me. She asked me to publish this story in Colmena before she

My mother was born in 1922, at that time, in Venezuela and in her town, there were no roads to communicate from one town to another, communication was as far as the legs of horses and donkeys could go.

In 2019, the scourge of the COVID 19. Pandemic began in our country, and the economic situation was worsening every day: inflation was soaring, the national currency was devalued, prices of basic necessities

In the early 90's, I organized an excursion with my 4 children, my sister Maria (on my father's side), my nephew Hernan Luis, whom I raised as my son, 3 of my nieces: Maria Antonieta, Maria Eugenia

My mother, Leonides, when she was a teenager, Doña Aurora, her mother took her to study in San Fernando de Cumanacoa-Venezuela, since there was no school in Sotillo. When she arrived, she lived in the

In 1965, I was in my third year of high school at Liceo José Silverio González, with a group of 14 friends, who considered ourselves as a family, because of the number of years we had been studying together

Since I was a teenager, my mother Leonides, assigned me to clean the house, my sister Maria Teresa, did not do any work, she was the spoiled of my mother. The rest of the housework was done by my sister

From a very young age I lived with my mother and my four siblings, of which I am the youngest. We lived in the city of Cumaná, Venezuela in a very humble house, my mother worked as a seamstress in the

Since I was 16 years old, culminating my last school year at the Liceo Antonio José de Sucre, in Cumaná-Venezuela, I made friends with three classmates, who liked to smoke cigarettes. Since at that stage

By 2010, Efrain, my husband and I were together living in the same house where we procreated, raised and educated our children, in the city of Cumana-Venezuela. At that time he was 60 years old. At that

Efrain Maican, my cousin, suggested me to write his story, especially the reason why he had to look for new horizons that would allow him to improve his living conditions with his family. He is married

When I was able to reason, my mother told me that on the day of the delivery she was in a chair, accompanied by a midwife, who knew how to position her so that she could give birth easily and the child

According to the lunar calendar, Holy Week falls one year in the month of March and another year in the month of April. They were festivities that originated in past centuries, promoted by the church,

By 1977, I was already married, at that time she had only two children, one three years old and the other 9 months old. I was working at the Republics Argentina Elementary School in the Library area as

Carmen Arenas, (we affectionately call Camucha), she is my friend since childhood, we still maintain our ties of friendship. She asked me to write and publish the story of her life in Colmena. Carmen lived

In early November 1950, my mother was already having problems with my father; he had left home in a huff. A few days later, he asked her for an interview and she granted it, and they went for a walk. Then

The ruins of Cubagua Island are located between the Araya Peninsula and Margarita Island. History tells that, since the 16th century, this island possessed large deposits of pearls, whose exploitation