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Hi Edith, Como andas? espero estes bien al igual que tu familia, no te pierdas, escribe de vez en cuando.Carinos Carmen Guerra Quevedo

Message by Carmen Guerra Quevedo | Aug 25th 2009

Edith, thank you for your nice note. Once again I am deeply moved to see yet another testimonial of how many of us blocked many of our memories from those days. I'm thinking that it is the brain's mechanism to help us deal with traumatic events such as it was to suddenly leave our families, lose our country, and start from zero in a strange place surrounded by strangers. Being so young and innocent we were not exactly prepared for it, but the resiliency of our youth gave us a survival advantage. Now that we know how it all turned out, both for better or for worse, our minds feel not only safer in bringing back the memories, but even eager to reclaim the good parts of those days, that in some ways turned out to be, like you say, our “good old days.” I can see now that just about all of us have recognized that the blessings in our ordeal came in the people we shared the experience with. I only kept in touch with two or three people, but now that we are finding one another again in this website, I feel like just about everyone who was in similar circumstances is certainly a very special friend. Like you, I’ve lived away from a Cuban environment, but in my heart I was never disconnected, even when I tried to forget to ease the pain. –I see that you lived in SC also. We’ll have to trade notes on that someday. If you wish, write me at my e-mail address that appears in my profile.– I will do everything possible to attend one of the Pedro Pan reunions to put faces and names together. I also envision us putting our memories back like beads strung together to make a beautiful necklace that decorates and identifies us all as part of a very special group. Hope to see you there! Yolanda

Message by Yolanda Cardenas Ganong | Aug 4th 2009

Hola, Edie. Soy otra de las muchachitas que fueron a Inmaculata Academy en el 63. Cuando empezamos a ir a ese colegio yo estaba en casa de los Quesada en el mismo cuarto don Ana Maritza Mier, Amparo Milian, Janet Martinez, Ma Elena Pomar y Zoe Carvajal. Del otro cuarto recuerdo a Niurka Ruiz. Recuerdo mas las caras que los nombres de las demas, pero no de quien estaba en casa de quien. ¿Estabas tú en la casa de los Quesada? He pensado hasta en contratar a un hipnotizador que me quite los velos de la memoria. ;] - Lo de tu hija en 9/11 eriza de pies a cabeza. Mi hija vivia en NY en aquel entonces y a menudo andaba por esa zona, pero cuando el ataque estaba en SC de visita. Aun así, lo que pasó tuvo un impacto espantoso. - No tengo claro donde vives ahora. Bueno, algun dia nos veremos todas otra vez y seguro que nos vendrán los recuerdos a raudales. Un abrazo, Yolanda

Message by Yolanda Cardenas Ganong | Aug 3rd 2009

Dear Edith,so many years have passed and we found each other again,I always remembered you,it was hard leaving my Florida City friends,we were very closed,that is why I left you my precious possesions when I left for Albuquerque "my colchoneta and my locker".We wrote each other for some time and then we lost track.I moved to New Orleans with my parents and then to Miami where I live since 1977. I wrote you before you joined the Pedro Pan Database just in case you would find me.I will email you soon.Such beautiful story you have and I am not surprised you have brilliant children. Love, Carmen

Message by Carmen Guerra Quevedo | Aug 2nd 2009

Edith, soy Carmen Guerra. Dejame saber si tu estuvistes en casa de Nino y Peluca Cesari en el 62. Espero que si.Si te registras imagino leeras esta. Carmen

Message by Carmen Guerra Quevedo | Jun 19th 2009