She opened her mouth and sang like a caged bird, while revolution tore everything from her, as far as she could sing. They took the money that her and her her husband dilligently worked for, and she stood tall against the man that took everything but her home and her dignity. She told him that she would outlive him the day he came to her home, that her husband lovingly built and named for her...
And she meant it. Originally from Canada, Mary McCarthy came to Cuba with her Spanish husband in the 1920's. She's a widow, and managed her husband's leather business until it was nationalized by Cuba soon after his rise to power.
The U.S. has seized all of her jewlery and the small fortune she made with her business, and she subsists on a $96.00 per month pension from the accounts holding her seized assets.
Mrs. McCarthy originally came to the U.S. to study music at a conservatory in Boston, and turned back to this gift she used to serve others through music lessons.
She's 108 now, and still puts on her pretty red lipstick, and plastic pearls in defiance of the rule that said her real pearls had to be seized.
There are no chains that can keep you from being free. Bondage is a state of mind.
Right on Mary! and Happy Birthday!
xo,
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Yay! Keep singing, Mary!
Love the premise of your site here. We become the people we associate with, so associating with positive, helpful people can really change the world. I'm with you on that one! :)
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