This a love story about young boy and a place called ybor city in tampa, fl.
Because, that was the place where I found my heart and my soul and my future.
You see I am ybor kid that means I am mixed with blood from a lot of different people from a lot different lands.
And here are some of them, my great grandmother is from sicily on my mother side.
She was a great lady I never new her she died 9 month before I was born.
Hear is her story and how she raised 6 children in ybor city making "Cigars" with out her husband.
You see she is sicillian and her husband is sicillian and sicillian have a thing about dying in the old country and that is what he did.
Leaving my great grandmother to raise 6 children on her own, they all were young some were babies.
He said he was sick and dying and he went back to sicilly to die and we never ever heard anything from him ever again.
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This magazine is dedicated to my great grandmother Maria guiseppe ciccarello who I never met and loved her dearly, because she brought me to a town called ybor city and the place in my heart, and in my soul, that I love more than my own life.
Because that is the place I found my heart, my soul and my girl, I love more that I can ever express in this magazine.
" Love U M"
"Miss u"
M