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Perez. After a year of
Ricardo Martinez knowing each other, they
got married. In 1971, they
had a daughter, whom
If I Had a Moment they named Sharon; this
is my mom. The year
after my mother was
born, they divorced, and
with My Grandpa he moved to California.
When my mom was in
high school, he moved
back to his hometown of
Taos. Not long after, he
was diagnosed with cancer.
He moved to Texas and
by Brinley Waight lived there until he passed
away at the age of 55, in
September 2004, only two
experienced months after I was born.
in regard to a
man named My mother always tells me about
Ricardo Lorenzo him. With every experience
Martinez, she shares with me, it gives me
otherwise known insights into his life and who he
as my grandpa. was as a person. She described
Unfortunately, him as a very outgoing person. He
he is no longer never knew anyone as a stranger
with us, and I and would talk to anyone and
sadly never got everyone he met. When he lived
a chance to meet in California, he took my mom
him or even talk to Disneyland when she visited
to him. My mom him. She told me how he was a
has told me how photographer, and he’d always
special he was carry his camera around to take
to her, and I’ve many pictures of her. This was
heard many where I made a connection.
stories about Today, my mom’s favorite hobby
him. Based on the is photography, and she runs
impact he had on a successful business, which
my mother, I can supports us and our family.
only imagine the It’s amazing to see how much
conversations I of an influence he had on her.
would have had She revealed to me that he used
with him. to sketch and do woodworking.
ave you ever felt a Ricardo (Richard) My mother has kept a pair of
his nun chucks, which he made
connection to a person Lorenzo Martinez was born of wood himself. My father is
Hyou haven’t even talked September 24, 1948. He was the a woodworker, which I can tell
to? It can be common to desire a middle child between two other my mom loves about him. She
conversation, or even a moment, brothers. He grew up in Taos, always told me that my grandpa
with a person you’ve never met. New Mexico. In 1969, he joined was a jokester. He used to make
This is the very feeling I have the Navy. That same year, he
met my grandmother, Charlotte everyone laugh. All these facts,
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