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A photograph of Mami taken by Papi at his photography studio in Old Havana around 1950.![Liz in NYC]()
My brother, Joe, Mami and Papi in New York City.![mami holding baby]()
Mami holding me in our Bronx apartment.![Liz mom with stroller]()
Mami and I in the Bronx, where she and Papi settled after arriving from Havana.![cake with brother]()
My first birthday. My brother, Joe, looks on.![birthday cake]()
Mami always went all out on our birthdays. Here I was turning 3.![mami in pool]()
Mami and I in a Miami Beach hotel pool.![chubby liz in pool]()
Mami and I on another Miami vacation.![Mami at the park]()
Mami, left, me and my aunt, Amada, my mother's younger sister, during a vacation in Miami, which was home to the largest Cuban exile population.A Mother Lost Too Soon
She had a Sophia Loren-style beauty, and a penchant for Lucy Ricardo-style antics.
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- A Mother Lost Too Soon
