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My Mom is 101

February 21, 2015 By Marta Darby 5 Comments

I keep repeating it to myself and to anyone who will listen. "My mom is one-hundred-and-one."  It's not the number of years that strikes me as odd. It's the amount of life still left in her at 101. "My mom is one-hundred-and-one." I try to explain to people what she is like. What it's like to have a 101 year ...

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Cuban Opposition Leader Atuñez to Speak in LA on February 16th

February 10, 2015 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

To be Cuban is to be invested in the political outcomes of the island. Whether we live there or not. We are all such crazy opinionated, and vocal people. I don't know if it was always this way, or if it's just what has happened in the last 56 years as the Castros destroyed our beloved homeland.  People often ask me why the Cuban ...

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Why Are Cubans So Special?

February 3, 2015 By Marta Darby 51 Comments

That was the headline of a recent article in the New York Times.  A dear Cuban friend texted me that headline and asked, "Why are we so special?" I don't think she was really trying to start a political conversation because she knows me so well, but that's not important right now. I responded with, "Because we can ...

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