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Welcome to my web site!
This site was created to show people the other
side of America Norman Rockwell never painted, but still exists. Last Ride on the Ferry, a
fictional novel inspired by a true story. Published by PublishAmerica on Aug 2, 2006. Most of the story
takes place in Hidalgo County in South Texas on the Lower Rio Grande Valley. This American family of Mexican descent
(Mestizo, or now called Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, or Mexican-Americans) became migrant worker in the 1950s. They
had ancestors who were displaced Mexicans when they once occupied the land we now know as Texas. The Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 had changed history and as a result, the Ozuna family had kinfolk on both sides
of the border. Adventure, hardships and amusing times unfold as the family becomes migrant workers. Traveling, living
in camps, and working with Braceros and undocumented immigrants, as well as changing schools
five or more time a year were common for the kids. After Severo Ozuna's life cycle ends, the family honors their father's
request to have his remains returned to Mexico and reunite with his umbilical cord. Seventy-one years ago, at the age of sixteen,
he had swum the Rio Grande River illegally to come to the USA
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