Mariposa's History

"The start of my story begins with my mother. Back then, including anytime before I was four, she was known as Graciela Elena Marcelo. Her parents both immigrated from Cuba to America before having five children, my mother being the oldest. My mother tells me everyday how lucky I am. The Marcelo family struggled financially throughout my mother's entire childhood, living off a wage from her mother's housekeeping job. My mother's father was an artist. He was payed even less. The Marcelo's, my grandparents, were both muggles, though neither called themselves like that. Neither knew magic existed. Well, at least not until my mother was ten."

''"My mother often likes to tell me the story of her first magical experience. It's the one memory before moving to England that she'll share without me having to beg her for it. She was eight, the average age for someone to have their first magical occurrence. Though, in a muggle family, it's unusual at any age to use magic, accidental or not. A terrible storm that had been blowing all day took away the power right in the middle of dinner. The children and their mother scavenged to look for candles while their father searched for a lighter. Once the candles had all been places at the table, my mother's father flicked the lighter on and a flame would grow on the candle. Though, before he could do the next, my mother describes a part of the flame dancing over to the next candle, almost like a ballerina. Not only did it light the second candle, it made its way to each and every candle before morphing into the flame of the last. Although it was my mother's doing, they couldn't trace it back to her. Not when the whole family was their and had watched the incident. They wouldn't have an explanation for the weird happening. Overtime, it was a crazy story that the Marcelo's would share, just like any ghost story someone may share if something similar had happened. My mother says her family stopped sharing the story once they found out she was a witch. Guess they figured it was her doing, which it most likely was."''

''"My mother is always vague when talking about when she and her family found out they