Spanish Bride

The Spanish Bride
Once upon a time there was a girl who was to be married, she was going to have an arranged marriage. She was very unhappy, and didn’t love the man she was suppose to marry. As you can see in her picture she looks sad, and very serious and there she was only trying on the dress her parents had bought her. Her parents had an arranged marriage so they were set on seeing their daughter do the same. They lived in a city call Sonora deep in Mexico where tradition was never broken. The girls name was Florentina she was about 15 years old, and was very strong, smart, and curious about life. She wanted to have something different than what her parents had. She was not going to marry this person she didn’t even know or wanted to. Then one day she decided to run away she didn’t get very far because her parents were well known in this city, and she was caught a day later. Later she asked her mother did you love my father when you married him she replied no I grew to love him because he was a kind man. Florentina still did not want this for herself and kept telling her mother over and over. Until one day her mother told her she was sending her away. I don’t know how but she met a lady who was willing to foster her daughter. Her name was Maude Stewart, she was an older lady who was married and all her children were grown and gone. Florentina was lucky I guess because she got her a job at a hospital and took care of her until she finally met the man of her dreams and fell in love, and they lived happily ever after.