Excerpt from Lights Out
ANOTHER LOSS
Aunt Zoila, my mother's oldest sibling, lived with my grandparents. On September 26, 1965, she ran the four blocks from their house to ours.
"Papasito is having chest pains," she told us.
© Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
Dania Rosa Nasca
September 26, 2017
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It's hard to believe it's been over half a century since Papasito died. He was approximately seventy-five when he died. As a young child he experienced Cuba's last War of Independence from Spain. He rejoiced for the birth of a republic. As a young man he experienced and took part in the building of that republic, Cuba, and saw that republic prosper until 1959. As an old man he experienced the theft of a republic when Fidel Castro stole the revolution.
Rest in Peace, Papasito. I know you are.
