She traveled to Mexico to reconnect with her roots and found love. What followed next was separation, loss and joy | CNN

Yesica Aramburo traveled on vacation to Mexico in April 2017 for the festivities in her Mexican family’s town of La Moncada, Guanajuato, in the center of the country. She never thought that this brief visit would change her life and lead her to find love. At the time, Aramburo was 20 years old and still studying in Chicago, but the excitement of experiencing in person everything that her family had told her about the festivities, motivated her to make the trip. And that’s when she met Ramón Vega, an automotive detailer. “We met in the garden,” Aramburo recalled. “From then on, there was something like chemistry, but we didn’t know each other; he was a friend of my cousin’s.” Despite that first encounter, love arrived a little later. That year, 2017, Aramburo returned to Chicago to continue her studies in accounting, but she felt the urge to return to her parents’ homeland for a longer stay. “Like when I was little and would stay with my parents two or three months on vacation,” she said. The 29-year-old American has had a deep love for Mexico since she was very young. She says she likes how colorful life is on the other side of the border, the way people are,

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