Let's Get Personal

Born in the panhadle of Texas, raised in Roswell, New Mexico- USA, as the 7th child to my parants Adolfo and Socorro Reyes Duràn. I was named by my father's uncle, Marissa as in an American Doll named Marissa. I experienced a sheltered upbringing where my needs were met without question. At the age of 19 I had a rude awakening. I suffered a great deal of manipulation, physical, mental, and spiritual abuse, not to mention a great deal of poverty; by my then boyfriend, which moved me away from my parents from New Mexico to Corpus Christi, Texas. That ordeal lasted 3 years, until I was reunited with my parents, my safe haven. I attended univeristy and had a long and successful career.

I always felt like something was missing. I was sitting in my downtown Dallas, Texas office one day on Elm Street at the Renaissance Building, Flipping through a magazine and I thought, wouldn't it be nice if I knew some of these people? The idea grew and years later, durning the COVID shutdown, I got the nerve and courage to make my very own magazine go life for everyone to see.

I was in a great place financially and my focus was to work with charities to help them raise funds for projects they needed in order to help those in need. I truly beleive that things happen for me not to me, had I not known what it was to be hungry without food or the means to get any. We would be here in this moment today.