Where I grew up my situation was common. My me and my mother lived with my grandma and I slept with my mother. She would meet men and they would come over and sometimes I went to sleep with my grandma in the other room and sometimes I stayed while my mother had sex with the man. If he was good to her, and gave her money or something, she would say that he was 'bien bueno', if she liked how he had sex with her she would say 'ese coge bien'.

When I went through puberty my mother would make me wear these grandma panties and I always had to wear a pad because I was of the age that guys started fucking girls. One afternoon she came home and this guy was on top of me trying to get my pants off and she hit him with a broom and called him an 'hijo de puta'. After he left she said 'see, I told you, you are going to get fucked'. We went to this lady and she got my mother birth control pills for me. After that I was free to fuck.

I didn't like the boys in school, I liked this man who worked at the mechanic shop that I passed when I walked home. He always called out to me and asked me to show him 'la cola'. He would grab his pants and tell me that he was going to give it to me. I couldn't wait, and one afternoon I went over to him and told him that if he wanted to he could fuck me. I became his girlfriend, his chavita and he gave me money and gifts.

When I was 18 a friend of mine and I ran away from our town and went to the city to look for work. I met a guy who drives a truck for Fed Ex and I went with him. We live in a one bedroom apartment. I have a daughter, she is five now and she sleeps with us, and after I have sex, I tell her that her father 'es bien bueno'. When I was her age I knew everything, and she knows everything. It is better that way, where we live all the kids know everything and all the mothers and girls have a man.