When I was growing up, she would frequently mention her life in the farm labor camps, and so I always knew about that part of her life. But it wasn’t until I was a grownup and had my own children and she would come to my house and spend two weeks at a time with me on various occasions that she would sit around and reminisce about Mexico. I was an adult before I knew anything about her Mexican life, living in Aguascalientes, and what it was like for her to grow up there. It was sort of a revelation to discover that she was actually wealthy and that she had servants, because I always thought that her beginnings sort of began in the farm labor camp. In my mind, there wasn’t anything before that. And so it was very much an epiphany to discover that she had this whole other sort of princess life in Mexico.
