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Manuela Rejas. Mercedes González Rojo

Manuela Rejas practice as a magician

Manuela Rejas: an illusion of life

This is the title under which I want to present the profile of Manuela Rejas a woman who came into my life a few years ago but that involved a discovery that stirred me many things and we lost a month of March, will now make a year. What why "illusion of life"? First of all it was the first woman who won in Spain the professional magician card, while still a minor, something unthinkable in a man's world where a woman was to the post of assistant. But Manuela, I dreamed of doing magic since childhood, as has some of his biographical writings, since an itinerant magician entrusted his bag before he was arrested and clear! never returned. And if it was she who did the tricks, it was logical that the magician was not the assistant. After that circus life led her to travel throughout Spain and other parts of the world, with a husband who followed her and a family that was growing. Up until the accident and illness and had to leave the circus and learn to survive with a thousand and professions with which it was moving forward slowly.

And here comes the second reason, or perhaps the principal, called illusion of life. Suffering from a serious illness, struggling every day with the Grim Reaper in a grueling game that always got at least leave tables, refusing to leave, although he was aware it could lose the next game at any time, as if constant trick of "escapism" is involved.

came one day to Veguellina Órbigo by chance, looking for your daughter. There he fell in love with the river and decided to stay. In their suitcases locked up a whole wealth of life experiences that had accumulated ... Some better, some worst ... But above all life experiences, experiences that helped her cope day to day difficulties, not to be satisfied with an unjust society tripping planted in the life of any woman who was not satisfied with what the environment, deeply patriarchal and protective of the time in which he lived, had intended for her. And there I met her. With all the force of life in their eyes bright, her smile, in games of magic that every evening was practicing for the people living in nursing homes. But his words, sometimes harsh, sometimes tender, sometimes foreboding, which made her surrounded by a halo of "magician."

And let me introduce her to other women, some his contemporaries, younger women, as a pioneer in a difficult world and a time when the women had additional difficulties even greater than we are today, but also as an example of who never gave up and, thanks to his tenacity, lived his life by carrying on his own and his family. Sometimes living it as he wanted, in other - probably most - surviving to the difficulties that fate was planted in its path, revealing the face of injustice and rose up again and again, stubbornly, to whom he intended to break her and humiliate her. Also as an amateur writer, and near the end of his life, got to see another of his dreams realized, seeing his name in the window of a bookstore.

say that everyone will be able to be fully realized when you got three things in life: Having a child, plant a tree and write a book. Manuela, despite the pitfalls of life, did achieve more than these three premises and in his latest book, 15 stories were raw, "he was baring of his soul, weaving personal experiences with the aim of his fantasy in a process that, as she always said, was overcoming the toughest moments of his life, illuminating it with a ray of hope.

Manuela reading a story winner in a contest in which he was awarded in the last years of his life .

could write pages and pages on it. There is so much to tell! But it would be an abuse of me. Although if anyone wants to know a little more, you can go to my blog , which has a section that is a tribute to some of her friends, all those in whom left - forever - a mark indelible.
Manuela Rejas
Garcia, born in 1924 in Moralzarzal, a small village in the province of Madrid. From that moment, like it or not, became a citizen of the world, often described himself as herself, ending her journey through life a March 6, 2010, as if he had calculated the date for its ash undertake the final road to the sea, its ultimate destination, through the waters of his beloved river Órbigo, 8 March, just the Women's Day (working), she was always tripping over those that "men" and his life put in his way, while someone close to her words popped an epitaph he had personally written long ago and jealously guarded among his most prized possessions.

This is, in just a few lines, the portrait of a woman who was very important to me and I wanted to share with you all. An example of a simple life but full of determination, the desire to excel, power and fighting ability, which was not overcome by the difficulties of life, although at many times the load was too heavy. Mercedes

Glez. Red. Leon is Equality Officer of the City of Astorga and works with many women's associations.