Family portrait when Gabriela was seven years old. This photograph was

taken in the town of Sanarate, Guatemala. Top row: father, older brother

Carlos, and mother; bottom row: younger brother Jesus (Chus), and

Gabriela holding her precious doll. This is the doll, along with the

incidences surrounding it, that is described early in chapter one.

Gabriela at 11 years years of age

Mother

Father

El Progreso Guastatoya in 2005. This is my town of birth and I am sitting

in the gazebo in the central park. The town has been rebuilt from the

devastation of the February 1976 earthquake.

grandmothers house as it looks in 2005. Mr. Wong's house and store are

on the left and my grandmother's compound on the right.

The church in San Pedro Pinula–the façade.

Parish church in San Pedro Pinula

Aunt Chus' house in Jalapa

Middle school in Jalapa (INSCA).

INSO-Middle and high school/college in Chiquimula.

INVO-the boys' school in Chiquimula

Gabriela at 13 in school uniform

Los Arbolitos Hotel-Chapter 4. This photograph was taken in 2005 the

building looks the same as it did in 1961. It is incredible that it is still

standing.

This is how Doña Rome's boarding house looks today, about the same as

it did in 1964. It is no longer a boarding house for students and

unfortunately, Doña Rome is no longer with us in this world.

Livingston in 2005. The main street looks very much the same as it did in

1961.

Gabriela with Canche and Finy

School outing-Los Chorros-1962

Gabriela with schoolmates at Los Chorros in San Pedro Pinula.

Padre Miguel- Marta Estela's family's hacienda. Marta Estela and I were

school mates and were so close that she wished her family to adopt me

as her sister.

With Marta Estela Solís in 2005.

My aunts' house in El Pinalito (chapter 5).