WE ARE ALONE

WE ARE ALONE

My Tio and my sisters said we have to now struggle without parents. It was just 3 of us. My 4th sister got married and went to live somewhere else.

I was young but my little sister was younger. She was only 5 or 6 years old when we were left orphaned. My older sister said we all had to work because we were orphaned and there was no one left to support us.

We were left with a lot of debt with the burials. We had to borrow money. I said to my sister, Santa, we have to be brave so Mama won’t be so sad. We are children but we must struggle to move forward. And Little Sister was so small, we couldn’t have her work. We would get up early and go to work in the fields and in people’s houses.

 

In actual fact, I started working when our father died. After our brother and mother went, we had to seriously work because it was just us sisters. We tried to raise our little sister on our own.

I spoke with my sister and I said that I had to go to the US, there is no work here. We were left without parents and we felt that our neighbors said things about us because we were orphans. We did not feel any community with our neighbors and we were struggling. Its not like here (in the US) where there is help for people like us.