Mom goes home to #Haiti to see what's left (A private letter to her aunt)

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From: Margaret Mitchell Armand <margaretarmand@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:27 AM
Subject: Carrefour feuille actually
To: Maman Mondesir 

Dear tante Tètè.

 

It took time to send you those photos. The first one is the gate facing the house of Manninnin (Grandma). You can see on top that my father's house no longer exist.

Then you can see me on that floor after I climb the rubbles and I am holding 2 pieces of bricks that were my bedroom and the living room. I took those pieces with me to the U.S. as a final reminder of a time gone.

When you continue to look at the photo you will see the HUGE almond tree that was planted by my grandmother when I was a little girl still standing tall as a reminder that we are still alive and as a recorder of our past lives.

You can see a car, someone in the neighborhood parked a car there after some removal of debris.

 

There were some dead people under the rubble, the children of Ti Lamè, Tante Lucienne's family that could not be removed and I still I could smell the dead bodies. Unfortunately, noone came to help anybody in Carrefour Feuille and the disaster is still obvious and the Haitians were left alone to fend for themselves until the time I was there in the beginning of April.

 

This is a sad memory, it is the end. But I hope that it is a new beginning for Haiti and we are the witness and the bearer of those times.

 

Love you tante Tètè, you were and are the only one always talking, explaining and keeping alive the story and the hope for our native land, please keep the faith because we need you to give us hope.

I have cried so many nights after I saw those scenes, I cried for Manninnin that is my grandmother and my godmother, for my father, for all of us. But in the ashes the phoenix is reborn.

 

Love you tante Tètè,

 

your niece Maggy

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