Love this SO much. It reads like fiction. (Hey, you should write more of that.) And it's always fun and interesting to have a peek into the past, in a way that brings real history to life. Diaries are brilliant that way. I teared up when I read "Nate has a new home." What a feeling that must have been.
Can't wait to read the diaries of the years during which Mary's illness presented itself. That has to have been a roller coaster.
Unfortunately I did not keep a journal either before or after Colombia.