You miss your country, your mother, your father, your family. I wasn't with my father when he died, or my older sister. It was very difficult. Even Perez's son, Eduardo, didn't know the price his father had paid when he left Cuba and his life there behind. It gave me an appreciation for what he'd gone through.
Latin families are very close.
It's unheard of to leave the town he came from. It had to be very traumatic. Perez is the first Cuban player to be elected to the Hall of Fame. It could be 20 or more years before another makes it. Cuba dominates the world in amateur baseball, but Perez was one of the last players to get out freely.