Mark Twain once said, “There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
This certainly applies to May’Ra Li Torres Roxford, a twenty-three-year-old CSUN student from Northridge, California. With a life made for T.V. drama, she comes from a non-traditional style of family that consists of four parents and four brothers. Their parent’s only mission was to raise their children the best way that they could.
May’Ra was born in Los Angeles, California but soon after her parents decided to move to Oaxaca, Mexico where by the age of two her parents had her riding horses, swimming in the beaches of Huatulco, Oaxaca. Soon after her parents moved the family to Mexico City, Mexico to start the children’s academic education. After a period of time, May’Ra’s parents decided it would be best for everyone to move back to the United States. They lived in Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, Texas, and California all before the age of eighteen.
May’Ra decided that she prefers to live in Mexico City, “I consider Mexico City my home because I have the best memories growing up there. Mexico City has a vivid color of life and tradition that its part of my identity, as well of my Argentinean background. I feel extremely great full to my parents and my siblings for giving me the opportunity to grow up in many different environments and have them apart of my life.”
In every family there is good times and the unattached times. May’Ra recalls her family being known for being risk takers and having an unusual sense of humor. “I remember my family visiting the Pyramids in Mexico (at) Teotihuacan. It was during a tremendous storm. I could remember rain pouring down and hail hitting the rocky floor. We laughed because my dads took turns carrying my grandmother down the pyramid while she insisted she could walk on her own. But every time she tried she fell on top of me.” She insisted that her family has a twisted sense of humor, but it’s all in good fun. If you want to know more about May’Ra’s adventures that include kidnapping, tragedies, and a car accident that changed this family lives for ever, check out May’Ra’s blog at http://ime84.blogspot.com (warning its still under construction).
Two Countries, Two Families
by Mirna V. Guardado
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Fall 2007
Number Two