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    My Mother, Mi Vida, My Family
    My Mother, Mi Vida, My Family
    My Mother, Mi Vida, My Family
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    My Mother, Mi Vida, My Family

    By Erma Calderon Loft

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    The cover of this book was designed by a grandson of the subject of this book. The broken heart signifies the pain and sadness of all three characters, the subject, the author, and artist. When Erma was twenty-nine years old, her mother told her that she had a big heart with two wings. One wing was strength, and the other was sadness. Mother told Erma she needed Christ in her life to balance that big heart. Two years ago, Erma received a gift at Christmas from her oldest daughter. When she opened the present, it was a ceramic heart with two wings. At the first sight of the gift, Erma burst out crying with memories from a saying from her mother. Her two other siblings who were there were stunned and didnt know what was going on. Imagine thirty years later how something from your past can come greet you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateAug 26, 2013
    ISBN9781490806143
    My Mother, Mi Vida, My Family
    Author

    Erma Calderon Loft

    Living in Sun City, Arizona, Erma likes sitting beside her fountain in the backyard, listening to the fighter jets that fly out of Luke AFB. Erma reminisces about her mother’s sayings and how everything makes sense now as an adult. Erma works in Hospice unit at the Veterans Hospital, where her caring heart goes out to the veterans.

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      My Mother, Mi Vida, My Family - Erma Calderon Loft

      My Mother,

      Mi Vida,

      My Family

      Erma Calderon Loft

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      Copyright © 2013 Erma Calderon Loft.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0615-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0614-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013915309

      WestBow Press rev. date: 8/23/2013

      Contents

      Introduction

      One

      Two

      Three

      Four

      Five

      Six

      Seven

      Eight

      Nine

      AbouttheAuthor

      To my family—my brothers, my sisters, my children, and, most of all, my mother Pauline (Apolonia Lopez).

      For who should ever read this:

      May you fill your mouth with laughter,

      Eyes with tears,

      Heart with love,

      And life with wisdom

      As you read my mother’s memorable saying (dichos).

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      Marcos Ray Calderon

      A grandson of the subject of this book designed the cover. The broken heart signifies the pain and sadness of all three characters: the subject, the author, and the artist. When Erma was twenty-nine years old, her mother told her that she had a big heart with two wings. One wing was strength; the other was sadness. Mother told Erma she

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