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FailureToCommunicate

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7. Our visit there with our sons was unforgettable, haunting, amazing. They had been
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 08:18 PM
Nov 2020

learning latin using the Cambridge Latin textbook, that was part diary from some members of a family that survived.

The son, Quintus, and perhaps a slave, happened to be out riding horses that day and were lucky to have ridden in the direction that did

not get the terrible rain of ash and stones...

They had kept a diary, and continued noting in it after moving away from the region.

We actually found that family's villa, on a back street, recently excavated, away from the usual tourist areas. Their family name, in

mosaic over their door, read "Caecilius"

Amazing connection to the distant past and that terrible calamity .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Caecilius_Iucundus

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