But people have to have a lot of drive, a lot of persistence and a lot of not caring what other people think of you. Such ideas were not always so clear in Sue's mind, though even as a child she remembers the desire to go, to explore, just to keep on moving. I'd landed there with just what I was wearing, and I'd imagine what I'd do to survive, unraveling my T-shirt to make thread for something else, and I'd just mentally go through all the things I'd do. I guess then I just wanted to be alone to figure things out. Though Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras in 1998, the country and surrounding islands remain in disrepair.
Many families are still homeless.
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