Querida Evita,
No te puedo decir cuanto has cambiado mi vida. No puedo creer te he has hido, y estoy esperando hasta que vuelvas. Si no viene ese dia, te escribo para tratar de expresar mi gracias. Pienso que este pais necesitaba alguien como vos mas que nada. No es todos los dias que gente como vos entran a nuestras vidas y nos ayudan como usted nos ayudaste. My vida esta cambiada para siempre. He visitado tu tumba muchos das, tratando de explicar lo que ha pasado. Aqui me siento ahora, tratando de comunicarme con vos, pero no puedo encontrar las palabras. Te admiro en todo lo que has hecho y quiero contarte un cuento de cuando yo sabia que siempre estare eternamente agradecido. En 1947, visitaste a mi pueblo, Villa Soldati. No era un dia regular. Ese dia, habias aprendido de nuestras dificuldades. Era el 20 de enero, 1947 y viniste a visitarnos. Personalmente, ese dia, empezaste un plan de la cuida de nuestra salud y viviendas para nosotros quienes no teniamos bien lugar para vivir. No esperaste hasta que alguien te ayudaba hacerlo. Lo hiciste lo mas pronto que podias y te agradezco. Mis ninos y yo pudimos vivir mas tranquilos. Unos meses despues, econtre trabajo, gracias a tus esfuerzas tambien y pude mantener mi familia, con la tranquilidad que mis ninos tendrian buen salud y un lugar para dormir. Te queria decir cuanto esto cambio mi vida y sin ti, no se donde estare hoy. Siempre estabas humilde, y dedicaste lo maximo de tu tiempo que podias para ayudarnos. No fuiste una figura famosa, fuiste nuestra amiga. Trato de no llorar mientras escribo esto, y espero que nuestro mundo se pueda mantener sin tu presencia. Aunque nadie te puede replazar, vamos a hacer todo lo que podemos y nunca te olvidaremos.
Sinceramente,
Lucia Fernandez
Dear Evita,
I cannot express to you how much you changed my life. I can’t believe that you are gone and I am waiting for the day that I wake up from this nightmare and you come back. If that day never comes, I want you to be aware of just a fraction of my gratitude. I believe that our country needed someone like you more than anyone. It is not every day in this world that someone like you enters our lives and affects us in the way you did. My life has been changed forever. I come to visit your tomb as often as I can, as many others do, trying to understand this loss. I sit here now, next to the hundreds of flowers that people have left, completely blocking the walkway. As I sit here I try to think of how to communicate my feelings and can’t find many words. I admire everything you have done for us and would like to share a story with you, in the hopes that it shows you how directly your efforts affected the people. In 1947, you visited my little town, really a slum, called Villa Soldati. It wasn’t just any day. It was January 20th, 1947 and you had just learned that day of the hardships and struggles my community had. That same day, you personally began working to provide us with better health care and housing arrangements, as many of us didn’t have this, and were struggling to get by. You didn’t wait for other people to help you, or worry about support and funds. You saw our condition and you helped us as soon as you could. Not many people can say they have done that. My kids and I could finally have some peace, knowing that life was going to get better. A few months later I was able to find work, also thanks to your efforts, and provide for my family. If you had never come in to my life, I don’t know where I would be. You were always humble, and dedicated the maximum time you could to others, not yourself or your fame. You weren’t a celebrity we couldn’t touch, you were our friend. As I try not to cry as I write this, I hope that our world can survive without your presence. No one will ever be able to replace you, and we will never forget you.
Sincerely,
Lucia Fernandez
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