Ada Ferrer

Sometimes they need medicine and I have to figure out ways to get the medicine.

You know, a lot of it is things like that, dealing with... Day-to-day practicalities.

Day-to-day emergencies, yes.

I actually have family that left Cuba and they moved to Spain.

So many people are going to Spain.

So there are these private...

bus companies.

Well, I don't know what they're doing now with no gas, but they were doing this, you know, before January.

These private bus companies that just go from one town to another, picking people up and just taking them to the Spanish consulate and the Spanish embassy.

So there's so many people doing it that it's become a business.

Last time I was there, which was two years ago, I said a little over two years ago, I spent a lot of time with someone who is a poet and

who was kind of driving a car to make extra money.

And one of the things we talked about, and I've noticed this over 30-some years of traveling to Cuba, is that you get tired of

of watching people leave.

You're happy for them, but you get tired of saying goodbye.

And I've noticed it myself, that many of the people who I was friends with in the beginning are no longer there because they've left.

Then you make new friends, then they leave.

I reached out to him in, I can't remember when, late last year.

He always told me he would never leave.

And he's now in Spain.