51/pA. tpty walking ahead of Alphy. She stopped under the shade of a large birch tree. The sun's rays were piercing through the trees, making large shadows, which appeared taller than life. Margurita reached in her pocket; she found a pen and with it she engraved that day's date - May 27, 1973. Alphy, seeing Margurita 's penmanship on the tree, took out his pocket knife and carved out the date she had written, making it deeper. Over the years, the carving on the tree became weathered and worn, but it remained legible, and Margurita would return to the tree much later in life, and reminisce of the day when she and Alphy had first marked it. 127