From Philip’s personal Journal… dated 5-25-2005
“Chocola is infectious; Jonathan’s passion for this place even more so. I think he may be more interested in saving this town than saving the ruins, and I understand why. Though the Chocolenses can not look to their cultural memory and find a connection to the ancient people that lived here before, there is nonetheless some connection that persists. I don’t know what it is yet….

“Near the school’s futbol field there are a couple of altar stones that must have been moved here by the Germans in the 1800s. Today the children sit on them as they eat their lunch, not knowing they were likely used by their ancestors thousands of years before, perhaps in relation to a ball game of their own…

“We had a late dinner at Dona Blanca’s this evening. A very old man came to pay his respects to Jonathan. He talked quietly about a recent sighting of La llerona, the spirit of a wailing woman who in a fit of madness drowned her own children, and now haunts the countryside looking for their souls…”