Bill Granizo - An Autobiography in Pictures
 

 
 

Mollie seemed to meet mom's requirements for a daughter-in-law. Being Guatemalan, she would "move in with the son's parents". But I saw more: she had attended college a whole year and I could visualize her walking past the school's Roman columns; she danced and could teach me; she played the violin and I liked music; her folks owned their home putting her in an upper class. Mom was concerned that I dated at age 20, and hoped that Mollie was a docile, totally controllable native weaver. They liked hearing that she played the violin and danced. That's because the entire family had once enjoyed a Gold Diggers film where a chorus danced with white violins. Mollie would not play La Cucaracha for dad and seemed to be very American. Marriage had to be discouraged.

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