Word: eloina
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...bendiga nuestro hogar (God Bless our Home). On each side of the inscription there is a tiny enameled flag, Dominican on the left, American on the right. Near by is a name plate that says: Familia Ortega. In the five rooms inside live Erasmo Ortega, 52, and his wife Eloina, 45, and seven of their eight children (a married daughter lives upstairs). Also a three-year-old orphaned nephew whom they are raising. Also about eight other children (it is hard to keep count) who don't quite live there but sort of romp around and squeal. Also a neighborhood...
...children, says Eloina, that they left the Dominican Republic. "The political situation at home was bad. The people were treated bad. We asked ourselves, 'How can we earn enough to feed ourselves? How can we raise our children?' " Erasmo was the first to emigrate, sponsored by a sister. He got a job washing dishes for $75 a week, paid his sister $10 for room and board, and saved the rest. In three years he had enough to send for Eloina, and she got a job as a sewing-machine operator. In another three years they sent for their four oldest...
...height of their earning powers, Erasmo made $160 a week as a dishwasher, and Eloina $140 on the sewing machine ("We didn't save anything, but we got by"), and then Erasmo injured his back while carting pans around the restaurant. He underwent an operation three years ago but has never fully recovered. Today he works as a part-time handyman and gets $229 a month in welfare payments...
...flourishing. Julio, 21, drives a taxi. Adelso, 19, operates a printing press. Diosa, 17, is a hairdresser. Zoila Maria, 15, is studying to be a nurse. The working children contribute part of their earnings to the household, and the household is buoyant. "We have had some problems here," Eloina concedes. "We know the Latin people are looked down on and discriminated against, but we get used to that, and it doesn't mean that we're unhappy here. We're very happy. Our children have a future that our country could never have given them...
...must come here. You will see that all the atrocities that happened in Cuba were not only made by the government as they say. I assure you men of the opposition are far from being victims or martyrs. They are not saints either. A WOMAN LOVER OF JUSTICE ! ELOINA GOMEZ DE VAZQUEZ...
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