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'''#5) Tell me about your immediate family-your husband, children, and grandchildren.''' | '''#5) Tell me about your immediate family-your husband, children, and grandchildren.''' | ||
'''SM''': Marco, my husband, is Chilean born from Sephardic parents who arrived in Chile in the early 1920's from Turkey. We met in Mexico where he was exiled, during the Pinochet dictatorship. Later in 1980 we moved to Chile, in large part, to live close to his children, Max, Daniela and Ivan, who were eleven, seven and five years old at the time. Soon my first daughter, Valentina was born, followed by Alejandro and Antonia. Unlike me, our three kids were born in Santiago and grew up in the same house. Yet, I suppose the wanderlust is in their cultural DNA. Valentina lives in Valparaiso, is married and has two girls. Alejandro's wife is Colombian, they live in Cali and have two boys. Antonia has become a New Yorker. So, my gypsy life continues. All my kids are now in another place. | '''SM''': Marco, my husband, is Chilean born from Sephardic parents who arrived in Chile in the early 1920's from Turkey. We met in Mexico where he was exiled, during the Pinochet dictatorship. Later in 1980 we moved to Chile, in large part, to live close to his children, Max, Daniela and Ivan, who were eleven, seven and five years old at the time. Soon my first daughter, Valentina was born, followed by Alejandro and Antonia. Unlike me, our three kids were born in Santiago and grew up in the same house. Yet, I suppose the wanderlust is in their cultural DNA. Valentina lives in Valparaiso, is married and has two girls. Alejandro's wife is Colombian, they live in Cali and have two boys. Antonia has become a New Yorker. So, my gypsy life continues. All my kids are now in another place. | ||
'''#6) Tell me about your relationships with your eight siblings-you are the eldest, the senior sibling.''' | |||
'''SM''': Actually, I am the eldest of nine siblings. I have a brother, Salvador, born to my mother and Salvador her second husband. We grew up together until I was 18, so we have the easy familiarity that comes with living in the same house during all our childhood. | |||
My Mailer siblings are eight. I am eight years older than Danielle, the next in line, and 28 years older than my youngest brother, John. I spent fragmented time with all of them during my childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Yet, thanks to my father's efforts, we are close as a family. Nothing to sneeze at considering we're the offspring of 6 different mothers. | |||
My father had many faults, and too many times he wasn't the most supportive father. But, eventually, family became very important to him. Starting in the mid 60's Dad gathered his children to spend a couple of months in Provincetown. In the early 70's a month in Maine was added. I wasn't always present, but I was there enough times to feel a growing tie with all my siblings. In Maine we were thrown into communal living, had to share with the house-hold chores and only had each other for entertainment. And it was this summer month every year which bonded us as siblings. I suppose that as the oldest, some of my siblings looked up to me. But, on the other hand, I wasn't around enough in their everyday life to know them intimately. I think it wasn't until I was living in Chile, that I fully grasped how important they were to me. | |||