My mother, Irma Fuentes Cuza de Brinton, has always been a woman ahead of her time.
In Cuba when girls were getting married soon after their 16-year-old coming out party, my Mom insisted she wanted to go to university to be a doctor.
Her father said it was not proper for a girl and unless she chose another discipline she would have to figure out how to pay for it herself. She opted for pharmacy and went to La Universidad de La Habana (the University of Havana.)
After she and my U.S. Navy officer doctor Dad married and came to the States, she went to USC School of Pharmacy and practiced in California for 30 years.
She is a world traveler and speaks five (5) languages.
She has always been there for her three kids, of which I am the eldest, and the one that gave her the most trouble.
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