Jorge Suarez
From Plastic Tub
Calumny
A recent spate of League of Gnomes literature makes the claim that Sr. Suarez was not only a pederast and a pedophile, but a murderer as well. I doubt this. Given, he had a well-known predilection for pornography and African-American transvestites, but he was, on the whole, a rather innocuous and private chap. Living as he did in the Kolping House for Young Men, he would have had neither the space nor privacy to carry out the nefarious schemes attributed to him.
An unsettled childhood
Suarez was always on the road. His father, an itinerant bard, pants salesman and knife sharpener, made young Jorge's life a rocky and ever-changing road. He'd seen the slums of Rio, the pampas of Patagonia, the Bolivian cocaine fields, the German villages of Paraguay etc. by the age of 13. His father then got an offer he couldn't refuse. Selling pants to Latin American immigrants in NYC. So at the outset of the war young Suarez found himself on the rough shores of America, working in his fathers pants factory, making olive drab pants for the war effort. It was a hard graft but Suarez got the gist quick-like and without gouging the government, giving a fair deal to his employees, all women, he still managed a good profit. He proved an astute businessman, but he craved more.
Romance and lust
Suarez had always been a poet, writing journals from the road in a mellifluous Spanish that was as forthright as it was enchanting.
And he had an erotic awakening to talk about; as the boy ripened into the man, handsome, well-bult, exotic, sporting a daring mustache....
His weakness was for the seamstresses at his plant. He allegedly had several mistresses from among them and fathered at least one child. He was generous, supported the woman and baby though college (the baby is a doctor today), but refused further contact.
To retreat is sometimes to advance
The strains of these affairs had him retreat from contact with people and with eventually the business altogether. He was excused in 1960. It was at this point that he discovered the AA through an ad in a newspaper.
