In the hiatus between chemotherapy and the trip to Spain – as Corinne regained her strength – she felt well enough to reconnect with friends. She visited with "the sisters," Eda and Corinna, who were her back door neighbors (and adopted family) for her first five years in this country. Devout Catholics, they had been praying for her daily.

The sisters' parents, like many of New Mexico's immigrants in the early part of the last century, were Italian. While English is their first language, they speak New Mexican Spanish with an interesting mix of Italian. Though they once took a trip to Italy, they have lived all their lives in the building where they were born (which sports a "Thank You" sign from the cast and crew of "Young Guns," a movie that was filmed here). They are the hearts of historical Cerrillos, NM.

We live less than five miles from the sisters, but on a somewhat challenging road up the mountain - much of it dirt. Corinne's cancer has made scarce her visits to her adopted family.