A love story

 

When I was a child, I used to listen to my grandmother.

She told me about love…

 

Maria de los Angeles Torres Lara is my grandmother, she was born on 2 August 1942. My grandmother’s parents had already had 3 children before her. She lived her childhood in Toluca. When she was a child, she used to take care of the cattle and her younger brothers. She went to school for three years because her parents believed that she had to get married. But she didn´t want to get married. 

In 1956 my grandmother met her first love, she was fourteen years old, but she thought that Zeferino Santos Mejia Martinez was the love of her life.

They didn't become a couple because they were very young…

In 1962 she moved to Mexico City. She found work with a German family, but she didn’t forget her first love.

While she was working hard in Mexico City, Zeferino was getting engaged to another woman in Toluca. 

She returned to Toluca until 1964 and she discovered that Zeferino was married and he had a son. She was very hurt, so she came back to Mexico City and she worked with the German family until 1968 when her mother got sick and my grandmother had to take care of her.

But when she returned to Toluca, she was surprised because she found out about her love again. Zeferino had been widowed and that he was raising a son alone.

Sometime later they met again, and they fell in love. She got married to Zeferino in 1972 when she was thirty years old. 

In 1973 she had the first daughter and two years later she had a son who was my father.

She used to tell me that true love exists. My grandmother has always been kind and intelligent, that is the reason because I think that she is an amazing woman.