I was like 14 when the Milwaukie Braves moved to Atlanta, and I became an instant fan. They had 3 players, Filipe Alou, Rico Carty and Chi-Chi Olivo from this strange, mysterious land called the Dominican Republic. I remember talk about the Winter League there.
In 1987, I have a friend who asked my and another friend to go with him to his family's time share in Sosua, in a place called El Mirador on the hill above Sosua. We went, and had an awesome time, drinking, dancing with the locals, beaching it, chasing and flirting with wimminzes.
I never forgot that experience.
I went back to Sosua in October '04. OMG! The place had totally changed! El Mirador was history. I wasn't all that crazy about the scene there, maybe I outgrew it, and ended up hanging in Santiago where I met Alida. The rest is history.
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