A tribute to Señor Benito Señor Benito was an old man whom my father used to hire to care for us while him and my mother were gone to church services on Sunday and Wednesday’s nights. My sister, the oldest, my three brothers and myself, liked this old man. He was a humble peasant, working at the coffee plantation where my father used to work. He was a short, gray haired man in h…
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…ildren, and I was one of them. I realized that I also loved this old man. Señor Benito passed away some years ago. I regret not being there to see him in his last days. I left my country in 1981 and never went back. Although he was only a humble peasant, his legacy is a great one. He taught us to love and to care. Requiescat in Pace.