My Bloody Life
The Making of a Latin King
Chapter One
La Familia
Puerto Rico, 1963. I was born in the back of a 1957 Chevy on the
way to the hospital. I may have been born where I was conceived. Considering
that my mother went into labor while sitting in the outhouse,
being born in a car was not so bad. My father passed away when I was
very young. I was almost five years old when he died. I don't have too
many memories of him other than what my mother has told me and the
personal memory of seeing him on his deathbed. I wish he could have
been there to guide me through life, to give the advice that only one's
father can give.
My mother was a young girl when she married my father. She was
sixteen, he was seventy-four. He was a widower with six children, all
older than my mother, and he had ... read full excerpt from My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King ebook
