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[ 1 ] 1950

[ 1 ] 1950

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"You're a good boy and just because you don't speak their language doesn't mean they're any better than you are."

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Robert Yahir Vega Capo wasn't like all the other typical boys growing up in Australia. For one, he wasn't a native Australian--his father Hector Vega was from Mexico, born and raised, and was on duty as an ambassador to his country in Australia. His mother Montserrat Capo was from Spain, in the mountain regions of Catalonia. They had met when Hector was doing a year studying abroad at La Universitat de Barcelona. She was there studying music and they fell madly in love.

They then got married and moved to Mexico where Hector launched his career as a politician. In Mexico they had their first four kids--Fernando, Ernesto, Elenore, and Elaine. When Mrs. Vega was pregnant with their fifth child, the president made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

Mexico's president at the time, Manuel Avila Camacho had been a friend of the Vega family. He offered Hector the position of ambassador. He needed someone in Australia, and Hector seemed perfect for the job. He was young, intelligent, and had a way with people. And Hector had always wanted to see the world, which was one of the big reasons he went to Spain during his university years as well. He took the job and the family of six, soon to be seven, were off to the foreign country.

Robert had been the only one of his children to be born in Australia, but he was given both Spanish and Mexican citizenship upon birth as well.

For three years they lived in a grand mansion, paid for by the Mexican government. During Hector's term as ambassador, a new president was elected in Mexico. But he liked the work Hector was doing, and appointed him for a second term. By this time, Bobby was three years old, and they lived in that house three more years, in a neighborhood where people who worked for the Mexican government lived. For the first formative years of his life, Bobby and his siblings lived surrounded by people they felt comfortable around. That all changed when Hector Vega's second term as ambassador ended.

In 1950, Hector Vega and his family decided to stay in Australia. They had been there almost ten years and were comfortable in their new country. His children were happy. The only problem was that they had to move out of the mansion and into some place more affordable for them. Over the years as an ambassador, Hector had been paid well and had enough money to invest in a soap bar factory. The rest of the money would go into a modest little house for his family to live in.

When they saw the house, the family instantly fell in love with it. It had a garden, a big back yard for the kids to play in, and it had three bedrooms. One was for the parents, one for the girls, and one for the boys. Since Bobby's older brothers were several years older than him, Fernando was thirteen while Ernesto was twelve, his parents placed him with his sisters in their room. Elaine was only two years older, while Elenore was three years older. The room was also big enough that Hector and Montserrat had separated a small segment of the room for him with a curtain. But Bobby didn't mind it. Because his brothers doubled his age, he had always been closer to his sisters growing up. He preferred being around them, even.

The very next day after moving into the house, Bobby had been playing with a football when he accidentally kicked it too hard and it went flying into the neighbor's yard. 

It fell right beside a little girl who was sat in the grass, having a tea party with her dolls. The little girl looked no older than him and she looked up to see where the ball had come from. She was surprised, since the house next door had been empty for almost a year now. But now there was a family, and as her eyes met with the neighbor's, she realized they had a son who seemed about her age.