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If you're looking for a warm spirit intent on adding a little sunshine to your day, allow me to introduce you to GOLO member, Con Amor.  She's quick to start a "good morning" blog to get us in the mood, but equally quick to engage in debate and share her beliefs on a number of topics. So, if you haven't already, meet Con Amor.

Angela: I just read the gut-wrenching story about your husband being deported on your profile page. Is he still in El Salvador?

Con amor: Yeah, he is. If I had my way he would be back but he wants to wait and see if anything will change with the laws and help him do it the right way.

Angela: How often do you talk to him?

Con amor: About three times a week. I buy a lot of calling cards.

Angela: Can you go there?

Con Amor: Yeah: I’ve been there three times and I plan to go again before the year is over.

Angela: How long has he been gone?

Con Amor: Since May of last year.

Angela: Do you sleep?

Con Amor: No. I would say the first three months he was gone it just felt like someone had died.

Angela: Now I see why you’re so passionate about immigration.

Con Amor: There should be an easier way to do it legally.

Angela: I’ve noticed that you are always willing to debate about it.

Con Amor: Yeah I am because there are so many misconceptions and I just try to clear them up.

Angela: If you could change people’s perceptions about illegal immigrants what three things would you’d like to tell them?

Con Amor:

1. They’re not all bad people
2. They don’t all get welfare.
3. They don’t want to be illegal

Angela: What are you doing right now?

Con Amor: I’m on my way home from work

Angela: Do you ever get road rage?

Con Amor: No because I live so far out in the country there’s usually no traffic. The slowest thing I get behind are tractors.

Angela: Have you ever driven a tractor?

Con Amor: Yes. I grew up on a farm. Actually I learned how to drive on a tractor. I was about 12.

Angela: Is it hard? It seems a bit scary to me.

Con Amor: Back then it was a manual shift but today they’re easy.

Angela: Will you let your children drive a tractor?

Con Amor: They’re just 3 and 5 and my nephews are 8 and 6, so not yet.

Angela: What’s hard about living on a farm?

Con Amor: Well, where I live now is not a working farm anymore.

I live in the house my grandfather built for my grandmother before he went to serve in WWII.

Angela: Wow!

Con Amor: That’s the only reason I haven’t really packed up and left to be with my husband.

Angela: How long will you live there?

Con Amor: I plan on keeping it forever.

Angela: Tell me about your first crush.

Con Amor Oh Lord, let me think. I think it was probably in the 6th grade. You know I did a Google search on him before I got married and learned that he’s in prison.

Angela: Well….gotta love the internet. So, where do you see yourself in 50 years?

Con Amor Hopefully retired and sitting somewhere surrounded by grandkids.

Angela: Will you be in that house?

Con Amor Probably, unless they start building all around the land.

Angela: Tell me about the worse job you ever had.

Con Amor Cleaning motel rooms.

Angela: What was so bad about it?

Con Amor: No money. And people are just so nasty!

Angela: Do you have a story you can share?

Con Amor: Actually, I do. We had a guy come back one day arguing because he’d left his marijuana in the room and he wanted it back.

(We both laugh)

Angela: So what happened?

Con Amor: He wanted to know who cleaned his room and the manager ended up calling the police. I didn’t have that room though.

Angela: Are you sure?

Con Amor: (Laughs) I’m sure.

Angela: What keeps you on GOLO?

Con Amor It’s fun and it’s easy to navigate. I’m there just for fun and to pass time at work.

Angela: Do you have any favorites?

Con Amor: I like everybody. There’s a lot of people who I don’t share opinions with on immigration but we share opinions on everything else.

Angela: When you’re dead and gone what do you want your kids to remember about you?

Con Amor: That I was a person who would always speak up when others wouldn’t and that I was a voice for people who couldn’t have one.

Angela: What are you going to do when you get home?

Con Amor: Cook, bathe kids, put them to bed and sit back and relax.

Angela: What would you like to say to your GOLO friends before you go? 

Con Amor: Thanks for not judging me.

Angela: Aww……Okay Con Amor, it’s been nice.

Con Amor: It’s been nice talking to you, too!.