Background
When she was less than two weeks old, her mother died and her father gave her up to her maternal grandmother.
When she was less than two weeks old, her mother died and her father gave her up to her maternal grandmother.
In her neighborhood (Miraflores, Boyeros, Havana) in Cuba she is referred as the Viejita de los Perros (the old lady of the dogs). Mississippi Penichet was the child of Wenceslao Penichet-Gonzalez and Amelia Margarita Rodriguez-Gonzalez (1891–1916). Mississippi Penichet would only see her father then on a few occasions through the years.
She also believed that if she ever returned to where she was born, she would die soon afterwards.
Since then, she has traveled to the United States three more times, but never to New New York