How Did I Get Here

by Pardo, Manuel

• ISBN13: 9798350999068
• ISBN10: 8350999063
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-06-05
• Publisher: BookBaby
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Summary

This book not only follows the life experiences of a young Cuban immigrant (Manuel), but it also illustrates the courage and selflessness of his parents. My mother made the decision to get my brother out of the country first, because Fidel Castro was recruiting young boys and drafting them into the service and brainwashing them. His father came over about 2 years later. He had built a prosperous real estate business and owned a restaurant in Havana, Cuba. His father lost everything when he left Cuba, because Castro confiscated all his properties and restaurant before he left Cuba. They even took his car. His father came to
Florida and actually picked tomatoes in order to help make living for him and his family. His mother worked at a factory making $25.00/week. Things changed for the better when the family decided to move to Boston, Massachusetts where the economy and education was much better. This was the beginning of a better life for Manuel and his family, but only through hard work.

Author Biography

Manuel Pardo is a proud father and husband to an incredible wife Yvonne who is the glue that keeps our family together. He never intended to write a book, but as he got older, he thought that it would be important for other immigrants and for his sons and daughter to learn that nothing is impossible even at 75 years of age. He came to this country with his mother in 1961 to escape a dictatorship/communism and never forgot the sacrifices that his parents made to get him and his brother out of Cuba and to the best country in the world.