Laura Gallo was born in "Chuquicamata"(a city up north Santiago) in the tear 1914 and died in September, year 2005 in Santiago.
She had 7 sisters besides her. Unfortunately they all had just passed away before Laura´s death. Laura had been a hard working woman since her early teens. She worked for a mining company and her duty was to enclose the salary of the workers, at Chuquicamata open pite mine, in cash.
She got married to Juan Orrego, a lovely man. When her 2 older daughters were grown up, they decided to move to another city(Concepcion) so as to find a better educational opportunity for both of them.
Then, Juan Orrego retired from work, all the family moved to Santiago and once here he suffered a heart attack.....Therefore Laura became an atheist because she never forgot God for taking away her beloved husband.
Laura was not diabetic even though she ate a lot of sweeties. I used to spend my whole afternoons with her. She never took any medicine just did household medicines to relieve from any pain of the cancer illness she had been suffering before dying. She took the bad with the good of her illness. Now she is resting in peace under the shadow of an "Ibisco Tree "at the flowery countriside near Santiago.
This is not a short story but more of a short biography of a person's life. The assignment for June 10 was to write a short story using narrative tenses and interesting vocabulary. The instructions and an example can be found on page 51.
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