Muñoz-Mongar, Alberta; Ramponi, Rosana (friend/friend). Public Library, Colorado Springs, 2009-09-28T10:30:00

File — Interview-ID: MBY005764

Interview Description

Rosana interviews her friend Alberta about her life coming from Mexico and raising a developmentally disabled son.

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11:10 Alberta met her husband in Fort Dix, NJ when they were in the Army. He was an American dreamboat.

14:49 Her son got his first job at Albertsons that he was so proud of, and he was crushed when it closed. Alberta met a friend, Kevin, who works with developmentally disabled youth and gave her son a job. He now has his driver's license and is in college learning how to do maintenance and it means the whole world to him.

22:12 Alberta decided she wanted to be more than an advocate for her son and she got her bachelors in special education. It took her 15 times to pass her test.

27:00 Alberta remembers standing on the bridge between Mexico and El Paso, TX and seeing the sun coming up and shining on the city and it seemed to say "come and get me because I have something for you."

33:00 Alberta once took her daughter to Mexico to see her home town. She showed her where she used to make tortillas and tamales and her daughter immediately understood why she left. "If you ate sliced bread on the weekends you were rich."