THE DEL AMO LAW BULLETIN
Volume 1 Issue 15 March 15, 2022
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March is Women’s History Month
We are Celebrating the life of an Exemplary Woman in our Family!
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Olga Perez del Amo: November 22, 1927 - March 15, 2022
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Nothing was more important to Mami than her family. She was the glue that held the family together through the good times and the bad. She was the oldest of four children. Mami helped to raise her younger siblings, helping to pay for their schooling. She got Tia Ale her first job. Tia Nena always told me that Mami was like a second mother to her. She was the leader of her siblings, and each one of them looked to her for guidance and advice.
Mami was a determined woman who was able to get her way with kindness, compassion, and love. In 1949, she worked at a textile factory when she met the love of her life, Carlos (“Papi”), her boss. Carlos carpooled several women who worked to the factory every day and each day she made sure that she would sit next to him in the front seat, so he would get to know her. They married on June 29, 1949.
Although from humble beginnings, Mami was clothed with strength and dignity, well-mannered, well-groomed, and a vision of femininity. My sister Gise was born on March 15, 1950. She tried to give Gise everything she never had etiquette lessons, dance lessons, piano lessons, and the prettiest clothes a young lady could wear. However, Gisela chose a different path. Although Mami did not understand her lifestyle, she never abandoned her daughter and continued to love her fiercely.
Mami always took care of her own. I was born a sickly asthmatic child who would not eat, she would patiently sit by my side and feed me for hours. Many nights, while I was gasping for life with an asthma attack, Mami cared for me as we both endured the odyssey.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the strength to move despite it. Mami was courageous. When Castro took over in Cuba, Mami knew she had to get her children out of the country. Against everyone's opinion, on April 29, 1961, Mami, Gise, and I arrived in Miami, Florida. My father stayed in Cuba. Thereafter, Mami got seriously ill and had to return to Cuba for the treatment. She planned to be back in the US in three months, but her illness kept her there for over a year. When she was finally allowed to come back, she had contracted hepatitis. Deathly ill, she bravely flew to Miami and promptly demanded to get on the next plane to New York, where my sister and I were then staying. For the next three months, she lay in bed with one foot in this world and another in the next. However, she recovered.
Mami was hard working and industrious. In the early years, her family was extremely poor, so Mami worked several jobs to help her parents support the family. Before my father arrived from Cuba, in Baltimore, Maryland, she again worked several jobs to support us while saving up money to get my father out of Cuba. Later when Papi joined us, she helped him build successful businesses from the ground up over the years.
Mami was forgiving and graceful. My parents had problems throughout their marriage. While in Cuba, my father had a child out of wedlock. When she found out, Mami forgave him, and remained steadfast and loyal to him for a total of seventy-two years. She did not bear any ill will toward my new brother and told me to have a relationship with him saying “he was not to blame.”
Mami accepted our partners into the family. She never interfered in my marriage. She was always ready to take second place in my life, giving my wife, what she termed as her rightful position as my partner. She always gave us her unbiased opinion when asked.
Mami had a strong believer in formal education through the university. Mami herself had a sixth-grade education. Many a late night, my mother could be seen helping my siter with her history lesson or helping my brother with the alphabet and the letter “E” that he always forgot. I was a procrastinator often waiting until the last minute to do my work assignments. However, Mami was always there to help type my term papers typing away till the early morning hours. She made it her mission that all her children would graduate the university, my sister graduated, my brother and I graduated a pursued advanced degrees after the university.
Nothing was more pleasing to Mami than being surrounded by family. She was the foundation of her family, a devoted mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She took care of Christie, my oldest daughter, for the first three years and my oldest son, Carlos, for eighteen months, while their mother and I worked. She embodied the idea that true love is selfless and prepared to sacrifice. Mami was generous, loving, and kind. Watching her family grow with the addition of four great-grandchildren filled her soul. The sound of their laughter brought her true joy.
Mami was blessed. Her dream was to travel. When my father came to Baltimore, they conceived their third child, Ramiro Eduardo, Eddie. Eddie gave her new life. Together Eddie and Mami traveled the world. Late into her seventies, she was traversing the great wall of China, going on a safari in Africa, riding camels in the middle east, and elephants in India. They lived adventure after adventure and enjoyed every minute of it.
To all who met her, Mami was known for the beauty that came from within, the unfailing beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. She was patient, kind, and loved unconditionally. She was not envious, never boasted, or was proud.
In her later years, she embraced a relationship with Jesus. Shortly thereafter, she was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with several blood clots in her lungs, a terminal condition. However, when she was awake, she was calm and at peace. I would visit her and she would say “this is so strange” before I would have been a nervous wreck with death knocking at my door, but now I am at peace. By a miracle she made a recovery and lived for many years more.
At age ninety-four her body began to deteriorate. She began to contemplate her mortality and begged God, sometime hysterically, for just another day. When she was placed in terminal hospice care, her courage through faith returned. She spent the last days of her life joyfully with a peace that transcends all understanding. She told each family member how much she loved each one. She asked her children to always remain close to one another in live. She joked once when she woke up from a long sleep regretfully “what I am still here.” She was calm and looking forward to meeting her maker on her dying bed and enjoying the life he promised.
Mami passed away March 15, 2022, quietly in her home. A couple of years before her death, I was talking to someone who lost his mother a year before but still had not “gotten over it.” I though to myself without Mami, I would die. However, I did not die because she is with God in heaven watching us and it is just a matter of time before I see her again.
Lately, I have been dreaming a lot about Mami. Last night I dreamt that I was asking Mami what heaven was like. God had wiped away all the tears from her eyes, there was no more death, no sorrow or crying or pain. She let me know that she was with God, her father. She had such a joyful face. She answered my question not with a description but with a feeling that she let me experience. She had me experience the all-consuming, unconditional, absolute, forgiving, graceful love of a perfect father. It enveloped me with a tremendous warmth and sense of total acceptance. The feeling is indescribable and so impactful that I woke up a big smile on my face. As I was transitioning from dream to reality, I felt her say love one another deeply, let them feel your love as you are feeling his now. Tell Gise, Eddie and everyone you meet about how great it feels to be perfectly loved.
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Rachel Platten
- Fight Song
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Women that have made and impact
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Joni Eareckson Tada (1949 to present)
Known worldwide for her testimonial feature film, conferences, writing, music, radio, artwork, and television series, Joni Eareckson Tada speaks hope into thousands of lives—not only as an advocate to the disabled community but as encouragement and counsel to many others. A diving accident in 1967 left her, then 17, a person with quadriplegia, in a wheelchair. After two years of rehab, she overcame with new skills and a fresh determination to help others in similar situations. She founded “Joni and Friends” in 1979 to provide Christ-centered programs to special-needs families and training to churches. Joni survived stage 3 breast cancer in 2010 yet keeps a very active ministry schedule. Her lifelong passion is to bring the Gospel to the world’s one billion people with disabilities.
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The life of Bernadette Todd is the stuff of feature films, the substance of miracles and true.
When Bernadette was born in Jamaica, the doctors didn’t expect her to live. But she survived. She endured demonic chants and witchcraft spells and was made to drink the blood of sacrificed animals forced upon her by the witch doctor. Bernadette was considered a castoff, as many disabled children are in third-world countries. Family members told her parents just to let her die, don’t educate her, and medical physicians did not expect her to live long. Bernadette’s parents loved her, paid for her education, and later brought her to Miami at age nine for further healthcare. It was in America that Bernadette discovered her worth. Here she was not cast aside but welcomed and assisted.
Fearing mortality from her fatal disease, Bernadette, at age five, prayed and asked God by faith for 30 more years to live. She is now 50, has lived past the 30 years, but is watching her life slip away. On Bernadette’s 30th birthday, her arm muscles began to fail. The cake fork in her hand felt like lead. Since that time, she has not been able to feed herself.
Bernadette has overcome false shame, feeling unwanted and rejected enduring pain, and the inability to do many physical things. But, her testimony of the miracle God has done with her life continues.
As a young woman and a Christian, Bernadette prayed for a husband who would accept and love her as she is. God provided Jeff Todd, a Miami native. Going into the marriage, Jeff knew that Bernadette might not live a long life, that she would decline physically, but he vowed on his wedding day to take care of his wife.
Jeff is a Biblical husband because he has laid down his life for his wife. Jeff has given up his work to travel overseas with Bernadette. Where no wheelchair can go, he lifts his wife and carries her. No nurse enters their doorway; Jeff supplies all of Bernadette’s care. No more exemplary example can be found than the Todds—a husband who has sacrificed for his wife just as the Savior sacrificed Himself for His church, His bride. During their 30 years of marriage, Jeff acknowledges that he has counted about 25,000 people who have come to faith after hearing Bernadette’s testimony in 15 countries.
Bernadette is an international speaker and missionary with Global Faith Mission Agency and Small Group Director at Christ Fellowship Church in Miami, Florida. Wheelchair-bound, she travels abroad to many third-world countries to tell others, especially those cast-off, that they too are worthy. Bernadette and Jeff live an inspirational life of faith. They depend upon the financial contributions of individuals and churches to travel abroad and live. They are changing Miami for the better. This year she and Jeff will travel to El Salvador and Brazil and any other places they are invited to as witnesses of God’s great love and power.
Bernadette quietly but firmly states that the church should be about reaching the lost, including people with disabilities, who are fast becoming one of the most unreached people groups in the world. To the disabled, Bernadette says this, “God has a purpose for you. No matter what you are going through, He can use you despite weakness and pain. Even with a disability, He can use you more.”
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Top Female Entrepreneurs
to look out for in 2022
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Women included in a list of favorite female entrepreneurs today, who have made their way to success with not just hard work, but their positivity, grit and untiring love for their businesses.
https://www.disruptorsmagazine.com/top-30-female-entrepreneurs-to-look-out-for-in-2022/
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Top 30 Female Entrepreneurs To Look Out For In 2022 -...
Primarily male-dominated entrepreneurial ground has seen some of the most incredible innovations when women have set their foot into the industry. Today, their entrepreneurial ideas have been evolving various business domains in no time and,...
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www.disruptorsmagazine.com
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The Carlos del Amo, P.A. Family expresses our respect and love for the women fighting in Ukraine for freedom |
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Remember The Ladies: The Importance of Women's History | Emily Krichbaum | TEDxColumbusWomen |
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Funny Feminine Fails | FailArmy |
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Should Daylight Saving Time End ?
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Quote of the Month
“Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.”
– Vera Wang
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Notable Birthdays
Famous people born in March
March 1, 1935 - Robert Conrad, actor
March 1, 1954 - Ron Howard, actor, director, "Opie" on TV series "Andy Griffith"
March 1, 1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor, "Zack" on TV series "Saved by the Bell"
March 1, 1994 - Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter, dancer
March 2, 1779 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, American Ambassador to Mexico brought Poinsettias to America.
March 2, 1904 - Theodore Seuss Geisel, "Dr. Seuss"
March 2, 1917 - Desi Arnaz- "Ricky Ricardo" on "I Love Lucy"
March 2, 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Leader of USSR
March 2, 1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, singer, actor
March 3, 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, invented the telephone
March 3, 1962 - Jackie Joiner-Kersee, Olympic gold medalist
March 4, 1888 - Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's "Fighting Irish" football coach
March 5, 1958 - Andy Gibb, member of "Beegees" band
March 5, 1989 - Jake Lloyd, actor "Anakin Skywalker" in "Star Wars: Phantom Menace"
March 6, 1475 - Michelangelo, Renaissance painter
March 6, 1926 - Alan Greenspan, Chairman of Federal Reserve
March 6, 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, NBA star
March 12, 1881 - Kemmel Ataturk, Turkish leader
March 14, 1879 - Albert Einstein, physicist
March 15, 1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President(1829-1837), hero of the War of 1812
March 16, 1751 - James Madison, 4th U.S President(1809-1817)
March 17, 1919 - Nat "King" Cole, singer
March 18, 1869 - Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
March 18, 1970 - Queen Latifah, rap singer, actress
March 19, 1589 -William Bradford, Pilgrim/Governor of Plymouth Colony
March 19, 1813 - David Livingstone, physician, explorer
March 19, 1848 - Wyatt Earp, Wild West lawman
March 20, 1811 - Napoleon Bonaparte II, Emperor of France and King of Rome
March 20, 1957 - Spike Lee, director, filmmaker
March 21, 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German musical composer
March 22, 1931 - William Shatner, actor James T. Kirk, on Star Trek
March 24, 1855 - Andrew Mellon, financier, industrialist
March 24, 1874 - Harry Houdini, magician
March 25, 1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
March 25, 1982 - Danica Patrick, American NASCAR race car driver
March 26, 1874 - Robert Frost, poet
March 26, 1911 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
March 27, 1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer and actress
March 28, 1899 - August Anheuser Busch Jr., Beer baron
March 28, 1981 - Julia Stiles, actress
March 29, 1867 - Cy Young, baseball pitcher
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Our Family
Karen Mautner and Yaumara Moreno
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Other very important people to us
Martina Martinez, Mario Montero, Victor Ramos, Kelsie Delgado, Aura Gutierrez, Guillermo Escobar, Vivian Patino, Jose Lovo-Campos, Maria Gipson, Katrina Toles, Anthony Suarez, Maria Portilla, Nelson Macias, Edith Bennett, Maribel Cipran, Edilfredo Medina, Mario Hidalgo, Joanna Carballo, Anabel Del Socorro Vallencillo, Ruben Arenas, Vitelma Cianci, Lucy Guiza, Digna Silva, Maria Quintero, Conrado Melendez, Maria Bancalari, Felix Gonzalez
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Easter Events
9th Annual Easter Day Eggstravganza
Sun, Apr 17, 12:00 PM at Miami Carol City Park • Miami Gardens, FL
The T5 Foundation, Miami Slush, and Fry Head Miami
Easter Egg Hunt & Summer Camp Expo!
Sat, Apr 9, 11:00 AM at The Shops at Sunset Place (by Entrance) • South Miami, FL
Coconut Grove Easter Egg Hunt
Sat, Apr 16, 9:30 AM at Blanche Park • Miami, FL
Coconut Grove Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Egg Drop
Sat, Apr 16, 11:00 AM at Little Haiti Soccer Park • Miami, FL
EASTER AT BRAVE WESTCHESTER
Sun, Apr 17, 9:45 AM at BRAVE Church Westchester • Miami, FL
Brimstone Doral Easter Egg Hunt
Sun, Apr 17, 11:00 AM at Brimstone Woodfire Grill • Doral, FL
Easter Egg Hunt at Glass & Vine
Sun, Apr 17, 11:00 AM at Glass & Vine • Miami, FL
EASTER AT BRAVE BRICKELL
Sun, Apr 17, 11:00 AM at BRAVE Church Brickell • Miami, FL
Breakfast with the Easter Bunny Neiman Marcus Coral Gables Mariposa
Sat, Apr 9, 9:00 AM at Neiman Marcus Coral Gables Mariposa • Coral Gables, FL
Annual Community Easter Basket Giveaway
Fri, Apr 15, 10:00 AM at Belafonte Tacolcy Center
6161 NW 9th Ave • Miami, FL
Easter Egg-Starvaganza at The Wharf Miami
Sun, Apr 17, 12:00 PM at The Wharf Miami • Miami, FL
EASTER MARKET 2022
Sun, Apr 17, 9:00 AM at Village Green Park • Key Biscayne, FL
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Del Amo Law | Law Offices of Carlos del Amo, P.A.
3211 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Suite 200, Coral Gables, FL 33134
T: (305) 443-7005 | F: (305) 443-2238
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