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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 12:31 AM
My heart is broken


You might remember our scholarship student Javier. He was my student in middle school, he was in our scholarship program, graduated in engineering and got a job right away. He did not come to the 2020 summer gathering because he was working in La Paz.

He passed away yesterday. My heart is broken. Covid has hit La Bocana like a tidal wave.

Javier and I in 2019






Javier on the right, on the day he found out he was accepted into college.








Here he is working in La Paz - a job he was so enjoying.








I am going to miss this kid! He was a one of a kind guy, a good friend to all his buddies. He could have been a poster boy for the scholarship project! He hit all the goals and more.

La Bocana grieves. I grieve.






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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 05:46 AM


Quote: Originally posted by BajaBlanca  
You might remember our scholarship student Javier. He was my student in middle school, he was in our scholarship program, graduated in engineering and got a job right away. He did not come to the 2020 summer gathering because he was working in La Paz.

He passed away yesterday. My heart is broken. Covid has hit La Bocana like a tidal wave.



Very sorry to hear that. He was too young.




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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 06:58 AM


So sorry, Blanca. This has been such a cruel, unrelenting disease.

:(:(:(




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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 07:34 AM


Thanks everyone. I am wavering between coping and falling apart.




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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 07:45 AM


Quote: Originally posted by BajaBlanca  

He passed away yesterday. My heart is broken. Covid has hit La Bocana like a tidal wave.


So sorry. I feel for you.




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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 07:58 AM


So young, so talented. What devastation for all his family and friends!
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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 07:59 AM


Blanca Along with my team we will being praying for you and your town
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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 08:13 AM


So sad to lose a young man that had done everything right on his way to becoming an honorable, productive member of society!

Blanca, is the tidal wave that you say has hit La Bocana a local outbreak of the virus, or loss of community family members living elsewhere?




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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 08:17 AM


I have no words. May you be surrounded by your loved ones and find some comfort and peace.
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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 10:09 AM


So very sorry for your loss... deep breaths... hang in there BajaBlanca.
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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 10:32 AM


Blanca,
Our hearts resonate with your loss.




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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 11:56 AM


La Bocana is being hit by corona. Many old and young are sick.

My neighbor's cousin had 3 kids in the hospital with covid. One died today.

Thank you all of you for your words of condolences. It really does help. I have to pretend to be OK for my granddaughter but if I could just take a break from Life right now. I would. I feel as if a vital part of my soul is missing. I sometimes am more involved with the kids than their own parents since none of them have gone to college...it is up to me to help the college students work thru issues. Javier was one of the easy ones.

The irony is that I got mad at the parents, really mad, when they insisted Javier return from La Paz to visit them for xmas a year ago. I thought THEY might die. Never in my wildest dreams did I think it might be Javier.

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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 12:08 PM


So sorry to hear of his passing. My condolences to you and his family.
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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 12:33 PM


DEP. My condolences to you and Javier's family. I did not think that the covid was so prevalent in your town. I was going to visit last week but instead just went as far as Sn Quintin and stayed pretty much isolated. What vaccine did he receive? What vaccine is being administered in La Bocana. I heard that it was bad in Cabo so I declined a visit there. Most of the people that I spoke to in Sn Quintin were vaccinated. Some with the Pfizer.
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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 01:30 PM


Very sorry to hear this. A promising young man just starting his career taken way to early.
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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 03:21 PM


So sorry for your and Javiers family loss Blanca.



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[*] posted on 7-20-2021 at 06:16 PM


That really sucks.

There are people in Asuncion who have been ridiculing the vaccination effort. I hope they read this. We're not that far away.
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[*] posted on 7-21-2021 at 05:16 AM


I'm so sorry to hear this, Blanca. A crushing loss to you and to his family.
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[*] posted on 7-21-2021 at 06:06 AM


How sad, Blanca. Sorry for the loss of your student and others harmed by this horrible plague.



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[*] posted on 7-21-2021 at 09:18 AM


So sorry for the tragic loss in your village Blanca...what is the world coming to?



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