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Ezequiel Jiménez nació en San Francisco de Macorís, República Dominicana, en 1981. Su niñez y parte de su adolescencia transcurrieron en Las Guáranas, un pueblo de su región natal. Más tarde, cuando contaba catorce años de edad, emigró a los Estados Unidos.
My Story
Nov 05, 2017 Chapter 1
By the summer of 2005, my life had no plans or desire to fight for something. It had been a while since I had finished my studies and I could not find a stable job on what I studied.
I lived the days writing poems, which one day I wanted to publish in a book. But such a day never came. One night, shortly before the summer was over, I told myself that I would write a book about my life and that I would dedicate it to my maternal grandmother, Altagracia Sánchez.
From there was born the inspiration to write my first book For the love of my life. It took me five years to complete it. I had to study the lives of my parents, my grandparents, my uncles, brothers and the complete story of my hometown Las Guáranas.
It was a wonderful thing to be able to live the memories of my childhood, to know more about myself, my people and the family itself.
I can not deny that I cried a lot, while leaving my life printed in a book, remember those difficult moments that we had to cross to get where we are.
For the love of my life is a portrait of my childhood until adolescence. How to value friends and the importance of never forget who we are and where we come from.
I fell in love for the first time at 9 years old. It was a nice experience. Sometimes I laugh to myself, when I remember the eloquence I was doing for that girl. I can say that the main inspiration came from my mother, who constantly fought to raise five children, who grew up without parental heat.
Having arrived in the United States in 1995, it was painful. I was barely 14 years old and arrived in a foreign land far from my family. I felt alone, and loneliness gave me to understand the importance of the presence of our loved ones. I began to grow seeing how the immigrant families that came to this country, fought unconditionally to support their families, those who had stayed in their countries of origin. All that, I took it as experience and tried deeply to express it in the work. In a way, the story reveals a bit of what human beings go through during our life trajectory.
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