Jean Baptiste Vanise suffers the anguish no mother should have to bear.
She received a text message from her 12-year-old son Tuesday afternoon asking, "Where are you?"
Since then, nothing.
Her only child, Marc Valends Louis Charles, played the violin at Holy Trinity School and Craft Center in Haiti. That's where she believes he was when Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened large parts of Port-au-Prince and turned this mother's life upside down.
She returned to the school Thursday, just as she did Wednesday and Tuesday.
A sign at the gate says "Visitors Welcome."
The music classroom where she believes her son remains entombed sits in a corner of the teal building with its open courtyard.She has heard from someone at the school that Marc Valends was not there when the tremor hit; that he was with another child or that one of the teachers dropped him off somewhere.
As much as she might want to, she does not believe that's the case. So she returns to the school.
She received a text message from her 12-year-old son Tuesday afternoon asking, "Where are you?"
Since then, nothing.
Her only child, Marc Valends Louis Charles, played the violin at Holy Trinity School and Craft Center in Haiti. That's where she believes he was when Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened large parts of Port-au-Prince and turned this mother's life upside down.
She returned to the school Thursday, just as she did Wednesday and Tuesday.
A sign at the gate says "Visitors Welcome."
The music classroom where she believes her son remains entombed sits in a corner of the teal building with its open courtyard.She has heard from someone at the school that Marc Valends was not there when the tremor hit; that he was with another child or that one of the teachers dropped him off somewhere.
As much as she might want to, she does not believe that's the case. So she returns to the school.
If I wear to lose someone in an accident like that i would never stop looking. I would keep hope alive until i found them. It would be hard for me to accept the truth.
Haiti Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti
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