PhD Modern Languages and Lits. (details for Sylvia Maria Valls in FB, Valle de Bravo, Mx. LINK). with three national citizenships (by my count).   Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, 8l years ago,  at a time when Cuba and Florida were still part of a relatively unified territory. College of Wooster scholarships (1957-1959) allowed me to study while the Universidad de La Habana was closed. Spent two years there at the Faculties of Social Studies and Public Law and of  "Filosofía y Letras,"  before getting carried off to Detroit, Michigan, in Nov., 1960, by a visiting lawyer I married Sept. 19th of that year. Of the Detroit sixties I have great memories including  personally attending Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" address in Wash. D.C. and also of being a part of those "Armies of the Night" (see N. Mailer) close to invading the Pentagon  I may have been the only "commie" (or near-commie) in my family. My illusions about the "Cuban Revolution" rapidly dissolved with my only visit to Havana in July, 1986. That state capitalism should be considered "communist" is the kind of "illegitimate contradiction" that Simone Weil warned against.Having first read about her before leaving Cuba, it would still take me fifteen years to get to her writings... one of those miracles required to make sure that what she has to tell us would make sense. If you are an atheist --as I was for ten years-- you will still find everything she has to say about THIS world most sound, provocative, and inspiring.