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    All the Pain and Suffering Made Me Stronger
    All the Pain and Suffering Made Me Stronger
    All the Pain and Suffering Made Me Stronger
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    All the Pain and Suffering Made Me Stronger

    By Cruz Patiño

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    The book narrates a story of a woman who has suffered from childhood. After the death of her father, she felt that her life will never be the same again. Since a child, she suffered domestic violence and discrimination. She was raped at the age of 10 and after having a baby, she suffered painful criticisms from some relatives. Desperate enough, she left her country; her son was barely a year old and went searching for the American dream.

    After suffering psychological and physical abuse from her own brother, she decided to welcome and start a relationship, hoping it will change her thinking about life. However, that relationship turned to hell. She loves her children the most so she had to work to be able to sustain their needs. Even to the extent of risking her health, she finds way to survive and be a mother to her kids. She wants the best for her children and be able to give them a normal family.

    She found a new relationship. After a time, what appeared to be a perfect relationship was changed by infidelity.

    Death was the only perfect solution. We need to trust God even during the most difficult times. This is a story of inspiration and struggle for life and dreams. Take a time to reflect. You control your own future. You decide for your own struggles, its either you give up or you move forward.

    I decided to get up and go forward you decide yours.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalibrio
    Release dateMay 17, 2013
    ISBN9781463350697
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      All the Pain and Suffering Made Me Stronger - Cruz Patiño

      Chapter 1

      I want to tell my story to help others. I do it like an auto therapy for myself. I’m from Ecuador from a little village named Sinicay. It all began from my childhood when i was six years old, i lived with my mom and dad in a mud house with my two brothers and two sisters i was the youngest. My family and I worked on making bricks. We were very poor but united as a family; we often had no food and went hungry.

      On one occasion we ran out of clay to work my parents made the decision to go to the east of Ecuador, they thought we would do better by going east, with hard work my parents were able to buy land in Sucua, Ecuador it was a beautiful place full of fruit trees and livestock. My mom had to go from one place to another because my brothers stood back home because I was the youngest i accompanied my mom wherever she went. She used to take me between her legs, I felt loved and happy. We ate oranges, cassava, papayas and other fruits. We had cows that we would milk and take fresh milk from and make cheese to go sell the next day with my sister. We were about 30 minutes from where we lived so we would manage to sell and then bought some things we would need.

      Everything was wonderful despite being poor and humble. On one occasion walking in the countryside, my brother and I saw a clump of papayas. My brother and I could not resist the temptation to eat the delicious fruit. However a snake bit my brother’s leg i screamed in terror to see how my brother was rolling in pain i thought he was going to die. I started screaming even more and asking for help. My sister and a boy appeared to help and later on my mom came. They took my brother to Sucua I did not stop crying, my mother consoled me by hugging me and told me that everything was going to be okay. Three days of anguish worrying have passed and finally my brother was ready to leave the hospital and return home with us. My parents decided it was best to return to Cuenca but Rocio had decided to keep her baby in Sucua. My dad had gotten use to living in Cuenca because of his habit of drinking aquardiente (alcohol distilled from sugar cane) he drank more and more and more each passing day.

      Flor the youngest of my sisters found a job at a small restaurant in Sucua. So she decided to hide from us so she won’t have to return to Cuenca with us. She fell in love with a boy named Sergio and had decided to live with him. We had to go back to work making bricks. My parents had to buy land for clay, we had to work very hard and early sometimes we had to rest till late at noon we only had about 20 minutes to rest; although I was a child I had to learn how to work, I did not study, my parents had no money, I just had the chance to finish second grade. Unfortunately that was normal for us there was no other way of life but work. My childhood turned into the workplace, making bricks, sweating all day, tiredness, joys and tears.

      Chapter 2

      M y father began to drink heavily every day that went by and we did not know the reason why, my sister Flor decided to stay in Sucua and my mother and I worked very hard, my family began to change and fall apart, my father was no longer the same he was very aggressive with my mother. I missed my loving father who spoiled me and gave me advice. But when he drank alcohol he was very different. I really was scared and on several occasions I would hide under the table.

      My sister Rocio came back to Sinincay with her baby, she became a single mother and came back to live with us. My brothers Rafael and Antonio also worked hard with us to help Rocio. My Father and Rocio got along very well, but I clung to my mother more. Over a year or so, my sister Flor came back to Paute near Cuenca. We had searched a long time and after much questioning, from here and there, we finally found where she lived. When we found her she would not return to Sinincay she had decided to stay in, since there was her husband. About eight months after returning to live with us, she was expecting her first baby, we all lived and worked together, had problems because of my sister loved Flor and Rocio and not always been so. Rocio always been the one, she wanted all the attention and sought to win any situation, no matter who was hurt with her personality, Flor and Sergio were married and before the birth of her baby, he had made a small house near the house where we lived, they moved in their house to avoid problems with Rocio, but at home the situation did not change Rocio fought with my brothers, and lied all the time, and her baby was very spoiled by my father. She said that I did not give her food. Sugar, or anything else, to make my father mad at me, my brother Rafael cannot stand watching the situation and the needs we were going through he raised money and with hard work he was able to buy a truck Ford 600. I remember it well, because for me it was the best thing we had experienced, the truck would help us work because we made the bricks and now we could sell it in many more places.

      Thanks that we had that truck, we could go out to the coast to buy bananas and resell. We sold vegetables and fruits. My family was very loved by others; a family who had a farm near us gave us the opportunity to work on their property, making bricks, glasses, ceramic plates and cups so we could sell in Cuenca.

      One morning my father went searching for firewood in the furnace bricks, Flor and I were with one of my aunts and my brothers were with mom at the factory, My mother and my brothers saw my father as he entered the house and quickly changed into different clothes and went out but gave no importance or explanation, that day changed my life completely, my mother and my brothers were surprised to see the arrival of one of my father’s nephews he looked very worried. He brought bad news that my father had died on the way. My mother and my brothers were quick to see what had happened, my sister Rocio went to my aunts house with great sorrow and gave her the bad news that my father was dead, my world flipped i felt a sharp pain i could not believe my father was dead. I wanted to see my father because i could not believe what they were saying; I did not accept the fact that he was dead Flor did not want me to go she wanted me to stay to help clean the house because we had to have a place to bring the body. Later on they brought the body of my father and put him on the floor on a mat that was woven.

      All that Passed through my mind was the memories between him and me I recode each of his advice he had always told me, be good, take care, and one of the most surprising for my age, that I would never fall in love with a married man and to not destroy any marriage. Those were his last advice as if he was going to die. The next day he was taken to a hospital for an autopsy i did not know what that was, and would rather not know, i have not yet accepted the fact of being without my father I preferred him drunk, but alive but nothing could be done it was a very bad time for me, I felt useless, decayed, I only had his memory, the Dr. gave us the results and what surprised us was that my father did not die because of drinking, he died of a disease called siticircosis which was an animal that lived in the brain that had consumed the blood like a worm, It had consumed all the blood and that’s why he died. Dr. explained that liquor had calmed him from the unbearable pain caused by the disease. And at the time if he had cured it he would have been better. We did not know of his illness we did not know it was very painful for him, after three days we gave

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