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Sancha Grgić Yglecias
Martin's grandparents were Croatian immigrants, and Martin's mother Metea was their American-born daughter. After high-school and before college, Metea returned to her family's homeland for two years — to get to know her relatives better, and to please her parents, who were complaining she was too American.

Metea came home pregnant. Her parents were not pleased. Metea kept her son, named him Martin, and raised him — alone at first, then with the help of her husband Bill, then alone again after she divorced him.

Many years later Sancha was born, the daughter of Martin Grgić and his girlfriend Adriana Yglecias.

They lived together in San Diego until they broke up when Sancha was three.

Adriana went to her family home in Mexico. There, Sancha was flooded with attention from her grandparents and aunts and uncles. She easily fell in step with her cousins.

Martin didn't want to loose his little daughter. She spends a lot of time in America with him every year, usually about one season a year.

Sancha has the magic gene, given to her by her father, given to him by his father. Martin had always known. He knew he was different. When he got upset, things happened. His teenage years had been hell, and he'd wound up in juvie once. He told himself he was normal, that there wasn't this thing inside of him, but I did no good.

His daughter was four when he saw she had it too. He tried to help her, keeping her calm, because tantrums were when it happened the worst.