I am so close to making my airfare.

Why doesn’t she go back to the cathedral with the other beggars? I am so close to making my airfare. She is spoiling it all, spoiling the whole thing.

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Her name is Kirsten. People call her Chris, thinking her name is Christina or something like that. But it is Kirsten. She doesn’t know why that is so hard to get.

She is on a winter break with Ricardo in his home town Valencia in Spain. It is cold, which is a little bit of a shock for Kirsten, thinking sunny Costa Brava/Blanca.

The Airbnb is an apartment in the old part of town that used to be fashionable during the 1900s, passed down from generation to generation. The generations moved on, no-one wanted it, so granny rents it out. The furniture is not antique as advertised. It looks old, very old like it would be left out on the street in the States.

And when Kirsten turns on a space heater and plugs in the toaster at the same time the fuse box trips, the whole place is thrown in…