When we mailed the photos, she wrote back and asked us to bring her to the states. We wrote back and told her we doubted that her family would want her to leave. Her mom replied that, no, they were very supportive. Well, this can't be something you can do is it? Turns out, there were no obstacles or even costs for school. We had to convince the Embassy to grant her a visa and soon we flew down to JFK to meet Miss Nal and she started school the next day. It had been a year since we met her on the beach. It was February in upstate NY. Miss Nal excelled in school, but was deeply homesick. We couldn't convince her to stick it out until school ended so she was on her way back home to Jamaica in April.
