Luis Brings Puerto Rico To Me / Elsa Figueroa App (Coli's Best Friend and His Pain In The Ass )
I am so very grateful for having met Luis and still so ever grateful to still be great friends with his girl Coli. I was so out of touch with my Puertorican roots until I met them in 1997, here in Newburgh. They opened their home to me and I was swept up into their very "lively" lifestyle. They played Puertorican salsa, plena, with guitars, guiro, they taught me how to cook lechon, taught me how to fish for "El Peje" striper from the Hudson River and more. We have had so much fun just sitting in the backyard cooking "a la barbacoa con la lena". It is such bullshit that he is no longer here. He was supposed to live forever. He now does in heaven and watches over his girl Coli and his two beautiful sons Luisito and Gigi...What a great dad he was to those boys....I remember when he would drive them back and forth to school, cook for them and teach them everything about ...what else..."mecaniar con el carro".....boating and fishing....
Luis would even watch Jeopardy with me and anwer some tough questions. He was so proud to be Puertorican and I am so proud to have ever known him.
God bless you Luis...Missing you for ever...
PS Never forget Spring St. and Ramon, Dandee, Jr., Sujeto...playing Dominos and drinking Buds.
Viva Puerto Rico Libre!
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