Aurelia Rodriguez Research Paper

Aurelia Rodriguez was born on September 25, 1951, in San Felipe, Guanajuato. She was born into a very poor household. The household included her parents, Martha Rodriguez and Sergio Rodriguez. She was the oldest of two female siblings, Yolanda and Jessica. Her family was so poor they couldn’t afford socks, and consignment clothing was too expensive for them. Every morning she would wake up not knowing if she was going to eat that day. For her parents it was a choice between eating or paying rent. Due to the fact that Aurelia’s parents were poor, they were not fortunate enough to buy her a crib by the time she was born so they would put her in a shoebox. Both of her parents worked to take care of cows and lambs, and would take her in the shoebox. The likelihood of her getting any education and moving out of the extreme poverty she lived in was very low. As a little girl, Aurelia did not grow up with toys or dolls. There was no technology so she would go outside and played with her neighbors. They would make games of their own and played in the mud. The community in which she lived in was very tight-knit, everyone one knew each other and were also caring. Aurelia remembers her community as if they …show more content…
They fell deeply in love with each other and started dating one month after Ezequiel's arrival. Aurelia fell in love the moment he heard her story, discovered her emotional scars, and didn’t flinch. She later referred to him as the one who saved her, because he pulled her out of the depths of cynicism and her self-destructive habits. Three years passed of their relationship, when Ezequiel asked her to be his wife. Aurelia had come to understand the meaning of love as it was meant to be. Her mother once told her that you find the most happiness in life in the small, seemingly insignificant things. There is wisdom in that statement, because Aurelia found her happiness from working at a bakery and cleaning