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By Sarah Woods

My grandparents moved to Guadalajara, Mexico from Rumson, New Jersey when I was seven-years old. Grandpa was an electrical engineer who spent his entire career at AT&T and he wanted to retire in a moderate climate. He grew up in often brutal border town of Brownsville, Texas with a Spanish speaking Castilian mother from Mexico and a Scots Irish father descended from a Kentucky doctor who owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy. Grandpa’s Dad ran produce up and down the Rio Grande and I later realized he was the key to understanding why Dad started every day with a half a grapefruit sprinkled…