Yanibel Reyes Santos One day she got up and decided to almost give her life for her children. Well, she didn't legitimately give her life away, but you'd think she should have after hearing our famous family story. The ironic thing is that it's not told, it's often rarely told, it's just a story you know because it was told to you once and then you just knew it. But kids aren't told. It literally took 17 years to tell me the story that I only recently discovered. I guess we call it our famous family story because it's the story of my family's arrival in America. My mother was born in the Dominican Republic, she was the first girl in the family, so she always spoiled herself and got everything she wanted. My grandmother knew that if she wanted to raise my daughter the way she had always wanted to raise a little girl, she would take care of the kids on bicycles, take the money and pay them so they could tell her where she needed to go next. They pointed to a distant house but at this point with everything she had just been through my grandmother felt like she hadn't felt as close to anything as that house. She and the guy she was with both walked towards the house and when they got there the people at the house already knew what they were there for. They brought my grandmother and her friend something to eat and a phone so they could each call the person who would pick them up. My grandmother, my father, my great grandfather was the one who would pick up my grandmother. He arrived that day around seven in the evening. My grandmother and great grandfather paid the people and then left. Just like that she managed to save herself, thank God, and that's when the process of bringing her children to America began. It was illegal so he knew the first thing he had to do was become legal and become a resident, so that's what he did