User:Latinacat

Born on April 24 1970 in Los Angeles, Calif. The fifth child of immigrant parents. Catalina (Cat) Elvira Berrocal De Freitas was the first to be born in the USA. Her Father was Jorge Eduardo Berrocal Sr. a mechanic from Costa Rica and her mother was Dora Carmen Blanco Berrocal a seamstress was also from Costa Rica. Her four much older siblings were all born in Costa Rica.

Her father was the first to immigrate to the United States. Petitioning for his family to be back with him a few years later.

Her family had converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints when they lived in Costa Rica. Cat was raised in the Mormon church all of her childhood.

The second sister had earned a scholarship to Brigham Young University. Her sister took with her her younger brothers. Feeling that the family was too spread out Jorge decided to move the rest of the family to Utah county, Utah.

Cat's father pasted away in a fatal car accident in the winter of 1977 on their way to visit Costa Rica when she was 7. Her brother was seriously injured in that accident.

Having had all her children grown to adulthood. Dora was now a single mother in a foreign country.

At the age of 27, Cat finally came out of the closet. Announcing that she was bi-sexual.

She had a relationship with her partner for 7 yrs.

Where she experimented with drugs from the age of 28 to 34.

She was pregnant in 2002, she was not able to carry the child full-term. She had a still-born little girl, Jace Analisa Berrocal.

She got married on May, 27 2005 to S. De Freitas later divorcing him in Sept, 2007.

Her mother feeling that her youngest now being married could finally gave in to her old age. Dora passed away on Sept, 8 2005.

Upon loosing her mother and best friend, Cat felt like she had lost her whole world. She lost her mother's home and most of her possessions.

In 2006, being homeless, Cat tried to stay out of trouble with no success. She was arrested twice in two years.

In the fall of 2008, Cat was in another relationship.

On the eve of 2009 she was homeless again.

Late spring of 2010 she was finally able to start up her life again. She is still with her partner in Salt Lake, Utah.