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The year my grandfather was born in the Dominican Republic.
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Growing up my grandpa started working at the age of 8. He worked at a bodega.
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My grandpa loved baseball. Whenever he wasn't working or studying he was playing baseball with his friends.
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My grandpa was about 14 years old when the dictator Trujillo was killed. He remembered how everything change. Everything went from being equal to having stats.
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When my grandpa met my grandma after high school. They both connected and had lots of similarities. They went to similar schools and lived 3 miles apart.
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My grandpa married my grandma after being together for ten years.
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My grandpa had his first kid. She meant the world to him.
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My grandpa got a new job as an auto mechanic and is celebrating with my grandma. His new job started in the Dominican Republic where later he would work in America.
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This is the year my grandpa found out that he was coming to America. His plan was to come to America to find a good paying job.
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My grandpa celebrating his first Christmas in America with my uncle. This could be his first Christmas without his family.
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My grandpa moved to Boston two months later where he got a job working at an auto shop. He worked at the auto shop as a mechanic.
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When my grandpa landed in New York he barely knew English but he made his way around. Where he then went to live with his cousin in Queens.
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The year my grandpa returned back to his family in the Dominican Republic. To surpise my grandma on her birthday.
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My grandpa celebrating his oldest daughters birthday when she turned sixteen. He made sure he could be back in the Dominican Republic in time for his daughter sixteen birthday.
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This photo is when my grandpa said goodbye to family before he had to return back to America for work. However, he would return back less than two years.
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When my grandpa returned back to the Dominican Republic to see his granddaughter(my sister).
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The year when my grandma died and shattered my grandpa's heart. She passed away sleeping. From this moment on my grandpa changed.
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The year my grandpa returned to America for good. Where he never returned to Dominican Republic
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My grandpa worked for years as a mechanic and then retired. Where then he started working at a dealership afterward.
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My grandpa retired from all of the work because he was getting sick and didn't have the energy to keep on working.
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My grandpa would come to Wellesley every vacation to spent Thanksgiving, Christmas, and birthdays with us. Every single time he came to visit he would bring boxes of a dozen glazed donuts. One for my sisters and I and another box for my cousins.
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Now my grandpa has to stay and live in New York where he is constantly in and out of the hospital. He can't leave because his doctors are in New York. My grandpa over the years is getting even sicker. However, he is tough and is doing well.
