"The stork made a mistake," my friends say. I should have been born south of the border. I was raised in South Texas in a normal middle-class family structure but my first glimpse of Mexico at age five made a lasting impression on my psyche and I wasn't truly happy in life until I made Zihuatanejo, Mexico my permanent home at age 23. I remain close to my family but the umbilical cord of my soul remains firmly rooted in this paradise by the sea.