My maternal grandmother, Patricia, gave up living in Mexico for a better life in the United States and for her children. She gave up the only place she knew about and knows only one language, Spanish. She came to New York only knowing Spanish. My grandmother was a laundress, a person who cleaned and ironed other people's clothes. My grandmother didn't give me any object but what she passed down was working hard. So, I'll tell you more. My mom and her siblings and my grandmother were very poor. The job she had in Mexico was not enough, so she decided to come to the U.S. without my mom, uncle, and aunts. A women helped her and my mom and uncles and aunts come and settle in the United States, which was 25 years ago (1991). She told me it was very hard for her since she didn't know or understood English, which made it harder to find a job. After trying really hard and for a while, she finally got a job of cleaning in Manhattan. So after years of hard work, she earned enough money from working all the time to give my mom and aunts quinceñeras. My mom passed it down to me to give my daughter, but in order for that my mom was given that through working hard.

– Dennise Reyes

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