Posted on 04/16/2023 8:50:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An elite Spanish mountaineer just emerged from a cave after nearly a year and a half alone underground, telling supporters she didn’t want to come out because “I hadn’t finished my book.”
Beatriz Flamini, 50, who spent 500 days — and two birthdays — in isolation about 230 feet below the ground outside of Granada, returned to the surface Friday, unaware of the Ukraine war, the end of COVID-19 restrictions and the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
“When they came to get me, I was asleep,” said Flamini, whose underground stay was planned to end on her 500th day. “I thought something had happened. I said, ‘Already? Surely not.’ I hadn’t finished my book.” Asked if she ever panicked while underground, she answered, “Never. In fact, I didn’t want to come out!”
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I’m surprised at how much color she still has in her skin. I had a cousin who worked nights for some years, and he became ghastly pale.
She was not writing a book, she was reading books.
Look like what Justine Bateman has become. A progressive mole creature.
The one in me saye she'd never make it as a ghost writer.
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