A RUSSIAN CAR
A RUSSIAN CAR
There are memories you never forget and
even dream frequently with them. That was the case of my car Moskovich
brand, of course Russian, and flooded the city, as a stimulus for
medical professionals in the late 80's.
Saying "they gave me" a
car is a euphemism for what had to buy my wife and I peso to peso and
costing dearly for the salary of a doctor. But there was the Moskovich
in the garage at home, bright and shiny as morning coffee with milk.
I felt privileged because medical professionals and others had no car
but ancient American machines that survived as antediluvian dinosaurs.
The car represented a breakthrough in our lives. It served to go to
work and to the beach or the field on Sundays. Until we put it a name:
Lester.
I bathed and shinning Lester whenever I could, I took him
to the mechanic as a lady carry on to the dentist to maintain good
teeth. It had a good engine, the Soviets had copied the Renault on that,
otherwise, as the carburetor was like a cavity that hurts again and
again.
It was a member of the family, was the first child I had,
then came Jennifer and Orlandito who enjoyed it a while. A Orlandito
loved to enter the garage with me sitting on my lap and driving, it was
his greatest happiness.When I decided to go into exile I knew that
Lester would be lost because my wife could not stay with it. So the
authorities took it because it was in my name and it was a car delivered
by Castro although we had paid until the last penny. Things of the
tyranny.
When I went to Guantanamo 18 years later I did not want
to ask about the fate of Lester. One of my brother told me he had seen
the rest of the body over there in a lost west of Guantanamo, Villorrio.
He reconnacied the plate, It was a den of cats, they had rickety.
The news hurt me as when you lose a close relative, Lester the car of
my dreams in exile in Uruguay had died. I only have the memory of my
babies laughing on Sundays glad when taking them to the beach and Lester
took them like a car that ignored his final destination.
DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ
CUBAN URUGUAYAN
GENIUS
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