A final goodbye before 'everything fell' →
From CNN, excerpt:
(CNN) — On Friday Martin Poitevien said goodbye to her parents at Miami International Airport before they flew home to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
“My mom is a worrier so I just told her, ‘Stop with your worry. Go home and enjoy your life with Dad. Go home and have the happiness and peace you’ve earned and deserve.’ I will remember this always because she didn’t say anything. She just smiled,” Poitevien said in a phone interview Wednesday.
Four days after the visit, a few hours after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital, Poitevien’s brother called to say he had gone to their parents’ house to make sure they were all right. He saw his father’s feet poking up from the rubble. Seventy-five-year-old Fede Poitevien died in his living room. By Wednesday, Innocent Poitevien’s body also was found, her daughter said.
The couple had spent their lives in one of the Haiti’s most depressed districts, Carrefour. In a nation considered the Western Hemisphere’s poorest, the Poiteviens worked tirelessly to maintain the family pharmacy, putting every cent toward their children’s educations.
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