I feel like a cat -- halfway through my nine lives. |
It was so exciting when he finally came. I didn't think he was going to come, but it all fell into line. It was wonderful. |
It was the land of the walking wounded -- bloody families in bathing suits, cut by glass and wood and other debris, mourning. Most people lost all of their bags and passports. We were lucky. |
The stories were so sad, terrifying and tragic: A Thai woman who had helped us escape had turned around to get her children, but they had been swept out to sea; an American-Irish couple who had spent the past 15 years of their lives on their sailboat had watched their boat and all their belongings get smashed, |