[Eddier1]

Suki, I don't recall if it was to you or somebody else that I said that since I have been a professional revolutionary for most of my life, that I haven't really much of a personal life to speak about. Everything, all my energies, have been channled for the Cause. That is the way it has been ever since I realized what a hell-of-a-problem Puerto Rico has with regard to its political status and/or colonial status.

My parents which were Boricuas on all four sides, and therefore so am I, expired many years ago. And they were truly bilingual in that they spoke fluent Spanish and fluent English. They had the standard education of those days, which usually finished with a high school education, and then became members of the proletariat, and spent their lives working till they retired from their jobs. They both lived to ripe old-ages, my Mom expiring when she was 80 years old, and my Dad when he was exactly 100 years old. Yep he fulfilled the desire of the Masses to live to be a 100!

Now,I was sitting around with my old commie buddies, swapping stories about our adventures in La Lucha, and having a few drinks, and it was all very enjoyable when the latest breaking news about Vieques came out. I steeled myself then and there to do whatever I could do to help settle the problems of not only Vieques, but La Isla Nacion de Puerto Rico.

And so here I am using my cyber residence, my computer, which at my age wasn't easy to master, but I did it. And I will continue doing it even though I think it has alerted my old persecutors, you know whom, and I have had a revisiting of the nervous condition they gave me as a youngster. These flashbacks, with physical symptoms, are like an alarm to me that I am under scrutiny once again.
I am optimistic that it will not lead to the complications of Parkinson's that you mention, because I have been tested in the past for that, and have not the "rolling of the index and middle fingers" that is so indicative of that disease. The only thing I must be vigilent about is that because of my age, and the exhausting nervousness, I may not be strong enough to toss it off, but will have to accept it now as a cronic condition. But only time will tell.

Thank you so much for your kind and loving concern about that.

Regards Boricua Suki,
EddieR