Among so much sadness, some laughter in Letur, whipped hard by DANA. Those that Izan, the teenage son of the couple who has been missing since Tuesday, was able to share at a surprise party that his best friends organized for him on his 14th birthday. It was on Saturday in a house opposite his maternal grandparents, with whom the boy now lives because his house was carried away by the flood in this Albacete municipality of 900 inhabitants.
Ángel, the promoter of this detail that Izan will take a while to forget, asked his father, Pepe, if he could go before five in the afternoon to pick up eight friends from Elche de la Sierra, 30 kilometers away. So that he couldn’t back out, the kid took all the firewood out of the 9-passenger van, put the seats in, and Pepe fulfilled his wish.
«He spends many hours with my son at my house and they were grabbing something to drink from the refrigerator when I showed up with eight other kids, some of his best friends. When he opened the door, the boy was very happy.», says Pepe excitedly.
Since they didn’t have a cake, they improvised one with a box of chocolates, to which they put a lit candle. They sang him happy birthday, “although we already knew the situation he is experiencing,” and the boy applauded and smiled before blowing.
As it was daylight, everyone went out to the street, to play, to run, and returned after dark. Pepe gave them everything he had in the refrigerator for a snack, he ran out of supplies to give them dinner and went shopping. He found the stores closed, but he saw the place where they are depositing all the donations that come to Letur. There he told what was happening and they gave him “everything he needed for the kids,” that they enjoyed with their friend.
He even had a gift: a set of cologne, deodorant and cream that Ángel’s father found. «It was great because we gave him a good time amidst the misfortune»remembers this good man, who will not forget what Izan told him when he said goodbye while hugging him: “Pepe, you are great.”
The tasks continue to locate municipal employees Juan and Manolo. Also to find Jonathan and Monica, Izan’s parents, who celebrated his birthday without them. But there were the colleagues.
Euripides already said it: “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness”. Izan, whose name means “he who has a long life,” has many of those.
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