1 day Ago By Empar Moliner
"Mom, we'd like some shoes," Paquita asked as a child, because they worked all day with espadrilles made of beta sandalwood. And so she explained yesterday, at the podium of the Calisay factory, where the full council made her and her sister Lolita, adopted daughters of Arenys. Their mother, who, along with the sisters' father, had bought a gas station on the road (with the sign "Hispania"), thanks to money lent them by a friend, said: "How could you think of wanting shoes if we still owe money?" These girls lived by the road.
As children, they worked like crazy. "I was used to climbing trees, running freely in the streets, and suddenly, since I was a baliga-balaga, they sent me to a school," Lolita explained. "And how tired I was of crying, until I got used to it.
.." The truck drivers would go to the gas station for breakfast, take a sandwich and a tangerine, and order a salad, a beer, and coffee from their families.
One day, one of them asked for food. "And we gave him what we had for us. A bowl of beef with a ball.
That was the beginning." A sacrificed life Paquita and Lolita have had a very hard, very sacrificial life, and we will never tire of repeating it. Yesterday, at the tribute, Joan Manuel Serrat was there, who laughed and applauded; Xavi Bundó and Pere Mas were there, who came together; the Hispania waiters were there, the ones who've been there forever; and the family, who continue the legendary restaurant.
Jordi Pujol arrived, who certainly understands the legacy of the two housewives. All the political groups, all of them, agreed that what the sisters have done is a legacy and is culture. Whenever I see them, I think of the song by the Dynamic Duo.
It's a private joke I always make. I sing: " ~ Stupefied, excited, beautiful as always, without the apron that distinguishes them, Paquita and Lolita received a little of the love they deserve. From our director, above all! And they laughed and said to me: Aren't you staying at the pica-pica?.
