Darwin lived at Hogar Amor y Vida for all of his teenage years until last year when all the older kids were forced to leave. He now lives in a town about 2 hours from here with an aunt and cousin. He comes to the hospital in San Pedro Sula every other month for his exam and to receive his medicines and we always go out to lunch together when he is here before taking the bus home. The photo on the left is of him at his graduation from nursing school a year ago, along with his aunt and me, his family representatives since his parents are deceased.
Darwin always reminds me that his birthday is also the anniversary of the day that Jorge Gomez died in 2003. Jorge was one of the two first boys who I became godfather to, both of whom died within 3 months of each other, Junior in Jan. 2004. I arrived in San Pedro Sula 2 days before Jorge died and was able to visit with him in the hospital the day before he died. The photo on the right was taken in the hospital during our visit, Oct. 6, 2003. Jorge was 2 years younger than Darwin. Darwin said even though he is no longer at Amor y Vida for them to remind him every year about Jorge on his birthday, he will remember him on his birthday the rest of his life.
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I remember that you and Jorge read "Clifford, the Big Red Dog"
on your last visit and he wanted to have more of that series of books.
Frances
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