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Gisela

("Tita")

The first of the family to immigrate. 

Our aunt came to an unknown land;

not speaking the language,

and willing to work anywhere to survive and

help the family left behind. 

with the low wages she earned at

a downtown los angeles/Ca clothing factory,

she was barely surviving financially and

against the advice of many who told her to just help herself -

she chose to help other family members immigrate.

Mom and dad

in love at a beach paradise circa 1953,

and

as it happens to many refugee and immigrant families -

with zero

expectation or knowledge

that only a few years later they would leave

everything and

everyone behind

to seek a better life for their children in Europe and

later the

United States of america.

"My Grief Angels"

is dedicated to

refugees and

immigrants

worldwide

it

was created

IN MEMORY OF

our own refugee and

immigrant family:

our parents,

our AUNT & UNCLE

AND the extended family