(CNN)In June of 1960, my father was a 14-year-old Cuban boy with a round-trip airline ticket from Havana to Madrid, Spain. He spent the summer with family in Spain while Cuba fell deeper and deeper into Fidel Castro's revolution. He didn't realize the extent to which his life back home was quickly crumbling and that the winds of revolution were about to change his life forever. At the end of that summer, my grandfather told his son that he would not be coming home; that he should stay in Spain and wait for the rest of the family to join him. It was a long wait. It would take my grandfather more than 10 years to get out of Cuba.
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Many Americans see Cuba as a playground of cigars, rum, beautiful beaches and baseball
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But the Cuban revolution broke up families, and there's a big gap between nation's rich and poor
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Some fear that any foreign investment in Cuba won't benefit ordinary Cubans
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Many exiles feel that normalizing relations is another victory for a corrupt and evil dictatorship
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