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1935
Gerardo Cortina Pinera (Cuban
Ybor City
Tampa, Florida
(Reader in cigar factory, unemployed)
(An autobiography written for the FERA Sociological Survey of Ybor City)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PERSON WHO INSISTED ON WRITING ONE
Translated from Spanish to English.
Gerardo Cortina Pinera
I wish, before anything else, to solicit of my dear readers, that they dispense me the msot cordial benevolence, since they will not have the pleasure of reading the copy sheets of an upright literary man, but those composed by a humble worker, who by force of sacrifices, has been able moderately to take a little instruction, so that in this manner be able to distinguish the world and its consequences.
My name is that of Gerardo Cortina Pinera. I was born in the City of Havana, the second day of January