Without Saying Goodbye. Conversations with “El Yuca”Luis Gonzalez Adiós. I really believe that word is one of the least-used words in my vocabulary, maybe in the entire language of people like myself - Cuban-born people that is. A-Diós. “To God.” To me, that says that we shall never meet again, so go with God then, if not myself. Vaya con Diós. That is so “Hollywood does Mexico.” I can say with authority that Vaya con Diós has never been the choice farewell exclamation of anyone east of the Texas-Louisiana State line, especially of anyone from the Caribbean. I was driving...