La Dona Antonia is my newest find in Yelapa. I met her last year. She is the mother of three girls and 3 boys and has spent the best part of her life in Yelapa having come here from Tepic. She raised her kids in this house and now lives there by herself. She took me in this year and gave me a room and that is why I put in a garden for her. She learned beautiful poetry when she was going to school and working in the hotel Lagunita and will recite it if you ask her. She is a living treasure and I wanted to share her with you.
I stayed with her this year for five weeks and we had such a wonderful time. Gave her shawls and jewelry from India, cooked her potato pancakes and french toast that she had never had before and just loved her up. When I left in April there were 5 ricimos of bananas growing in her garden on the trees I had planted. I called her a week after I left and she was jovial and in great spirits. A week later she passed away..in one day. No cancer, no real health problems, she just let go and let go of her body. Good work Antonia. That is the way to go.
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