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A port where everything goes south

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Now when I started out this blog, I thought I would fill it up right away with anecdotes and quirky stories about my family. And that's still my intention. But lately I have this feeling, of being like a kettle left on for too long or a pressure cooker with the valve about to burst. This has been a year full of change for me. Three months ago I decided to accept a job offer in England and move here for the first time in my life. And I say for the first time meaning I never visited the UK before and also because I have lived previously in 2 other countries other than Mexico, where I was born. So anyway, I moved here, to a place an hour north of Liverpool and west of Manchester called Southport in the county of Merseyside. The town itself if beautiful architecturally speaking, with a wide main street with arched shops on one side and a gardens on the other. Nicely arranged gardens and the promenade are a few of it's famous features, Google it, it's quite interesting. But s...
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How it got here

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I never set out to write my life story, let alone my family's entire history on a blog or anywhere else. It just happens to be, that some of the people I have met throughout my life have brought up the fact that it seems interesting and noteworthy. Some have trouble believing some of my anecdotes, the personal ones but also the historical ones. So I decided to put them down digitally for me not to forget about them and to one day maybe serve as part of the digital family archive. Now, here is a little about me. I am, as of today, 33 years old, born in Mexico, from a Mexican mother and a Spanish father. I am the oldest of their children together, but my mother had an older son from her first marriage, whom I grew up with, and then, there's my sister, the youngest one and my only whole blood sibling. I was born July the 24th, which makes me a Leo, whatever that possibly means. I have lived in different countries, I currently reside in Southport, England. I always wanted to beco...
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