Getting A Life (Cuarto De Siglo)

The joy of being a child, the pains of growing up... complex feelings always prove too difficult to explain and convey because by their very nature, they are unique and belong only to us, individually.
I am not famous. I am not a celebrity, but I have decided to narrate some anecdotes with the hope of providing an idea about what life was like in a country that, for many of my readers, is foreign and distant.