When Jose Astigarraga’s father, a tobacco company office employee, decided to take action and have his family flee Cuba, they weren’t wealthy or political like many in the first waves of emigrants. Others in their strata were prepared to see how the revolution played out.

“Very early on my father said, ‘We must leave,’ ” said Astigarraga, who was 7 when he arrived in South Florida in 1960, already marveling at his father’s foresight. Throughout his life, the cofounder of the Miami law firm Astigarraga Davis has contemplated how different his life would be had the family stayed in Cuba.

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