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My Life

  • Writer: Flavio Sanguinetti
    Flavio Sanguinetti
  • Oct 17, 2022
  • 4 min read

Updated: Oct 19, 2022

My Life

One of the most interesting and beautiful things that human beings have is being able to remember their past. remember their experiences, of course you will not remember from the moment you arrive in the world, and you will not remember the first years of your life.

Vou remember them because your parents told you about it, in my case the one who told me about my childhood was my mother and my grandmother Amanda I can tell you too many episodes from my grandmother, from funny to sad, and from my mother I can tell you that she was always working and looking for eternal love, in the good sense of the word, hahahahaha!!! My mother works a lot in a bank, I remember the name Bank of American, my mother was super incredible, and whenever she laughed she held her nose, well she still does. she gave me a brother, Eduardo is called, Eduardo is amazing, smart, funny and sleepy, the only problem he has is that he eats all day. Well, I can't tell you much about my father. since I met him when I was 18, and it was a strange, ambiguous, out of place experience, not so sincere, but hey!!!

The interesting thing about having met my father is that he left me many brothers!!! Hahaha!!! Well let's start with his names, Miguel is Chilean, Maria Anais is Venezuelan, Giovanna is Puerto Rican, Clarissa and Britney are American and well, I am Peruvian, if I think my father was international.

Well, any wey!!! It was the year 1976, well I was born on June 28 of the aforementioned year, my mother told me that I was fat and very sleepy, poopy and pichilon, at that time there were no disposable diapers, only cloth diapers, remember those white cloth diapers with a red line around them, they were as big as tablecloths, and they had to fasten the corners with a clip, fuck it!!! My old lady says that I used to urinate so much that it scalded me and I had to get pissed off, there wasn't enough for the cream. Well the years went by, he was the most mischievous of all the cousins, well at that time we were 6, Karen, Julio and Claudia children of my Aunt Lily and my uncle Epa, Pachin and Ursula children of my aunt July and my uncle Pacho, we lived very close to each other, Pueblo Libre, my aunt Lily and my aunt July are my mother's sisters, by the way I haven't told you my mother's name, I will gladly introduce her to you, she is Malena my mother, beautiful as a Rosa, I remember many experiences with my mother.She always came home from work at 8pm, I waited anxiously for her, since she always brought me a gift, it could be a chocolate triangle, a cart or a doll, it didn't matter to me because I was four years old, but one day my mom came home and I was waiting for my gift, and you know what he did, he opened his bag and extended his hands to me and told me that it was the doll of the invisible man, at that time that series was in fashion, I was happy, I went from top to bottom with this supposed doll, I talked to him all day, and in my mind I thought it was true, I even remembered the place where he kept it. But one day I couldn't find the invisible doll, and my mom told me that it had gone, and I was sad thinking about that fucking doll, and everything had been a lie from my old lady because that day she had forgotten to buy me the blessed daily gift. ok let's continue, well so you know I always get off topic, I start talking about something and end up changing the subject in a second, now I don't remember what I was telling you, AHHHHH I REMEMBER!!! Sorry for the lapse, ok, ok, ok…. Returning to the topic, if we lived in a free town, on Av. Brasil 2790 apt. 302, my aunt Lily lived in the same building in the apartment. 202, my aunt July in a building three blocks from my house, but the worst of all was that my grandfather lived on Amazonas Street, just two blocks away, the whole family together. My grandfather was giant, he was 1.98 meters tall, he didn't have an arm, he had a prosthetic arm, his fingers were supposed to work, but it was a disaster, hahahaha!!! My grandfather was engaged in the importation of household appliances, it sounds nice, well, in reality, he brought contraband household appliances, and he sold them. He and my grandmother Amanda were divorced, but they had a very strange relationship, but they loved each other, he passed every day by the door of the building where we lived, my mother, my grandmother and I, and he passed by whistling, a peculiar whistle that we all knew, my grandmother Amanda worked at the Jockey Club of Peru, she was the Finance Manager, my grandmother earned well, well, the thing is that when my grandfather whistled my grandmother looked out the window, my grandfather always whistled at 6pm, and she Amanda told him to go upstairs to eat, it was weird but incredible at the same time. During vacation time Julio, Pachin (my cousins) and I always went to my grandfather's house, it was an old gray house, and it was in front of the Santa María de Mujeres school, the grandfather's house smelled musty, He liked to raise fighting cocks, and he had two at home. We always arrived in the morning, and he was waiting for us with three bowls of quaquer, two buns with tuna and milk, a super breakfast that left us full, and the funniest thing about him was that he always ate the same thing, chicken soup, every day. . My grandfather liked to drink wine, his favorite drink, and when he was happy he would give us a tip, a tip, I tell them a sun at that time, but the next day, there came the problem, he got bad, hahaha, he asked us for the money of back, hahaha, and that's where the fight with my grandmother began, she told him why he asked us to give him back the sun he had given us, anger for three soles, you can believe it, but well, that's how they loved each other, and we him.


 
 
 

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