Salcedo--Las Hermanas Mirabel DR-Day 4

Today we traveled two hours north to visit the home of the Mirabel sisters.
The Mirabel sisters are the heroines of the Domincan Republic.
It was because of their bravery the country was able to escape the control of the 30 year dictatorship of Trujillo.  You can read their story here or watch the movie In the Time of Butterflies starring Selma Hayek.
I honestly cannot believe we actually got to meet the one surviving sister, Dede Mirabel, in person.
It was amazing!  She lets people stop into her home and she talks about her sisters and her life taking care of the children after her sisters were killed.  She said the question that she is most often asked is "Why weren't you killed? And she always responds, " I lived to tell the story." Truly an amazing woman and an amazing story.

 Dede Mirabel--87 years old
She let us into her home where we talked to her on her veranda that was surrounded with beautiful plants and flowers. 

 Me with Dede Mirabel after she signed her book for me.

 The house where the three sisters lived with their husbands for the last 10 months of their life.

 The home that all 4 sisters grew up in and that Dede still lives in.
This is where we met with her.

 The park down the street from the Mirabel home where butterflies (the symbol of the Mirabel sisters) fly in abundance.

Cute little boys who followed us around the park asking for chiclet (gum).