One Daughter's Journey
My parents were excited about their first trip to Europe, but it did
not turn out as they had expected. On one of the first days overseas,
their passports and wallets were stolen, and they spent many days at
the American Embassy. My father became ill, which he thought was due to
a virus of some kind, but by the end of their stay he was in a hospital
in Seville with a ruptured appendix.
My mother wrote in her diary, "I'm very apprehensive . . . they say [surgery] will be risky, but there's no other choice. Keith went into the operating room about noon--after two and a half hours the doctors came back . . . and while they were talking to us they were paged and then phoned in his room--my heart stopped. I really knew something awful had happened, then they called the guide--she was gone quite a while and when she came back she said Keith was very low with complications and then I knew."
The page above is a photograph taken of a postcard pasted into Mother's scrap book. Her handwriting reads, "Same picture as in the hospital room where Keith died. All Saints Day."
To see some of the sites my parents may have visited before tragedy struck, go to All About Spain.
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