Puerto Rico (CNN)Her son cried out for help via text message on the morning of October 17, a month after Hurricane Maria wrecked this Caribbean island. “Where are you??” the 18-year-old wrote at 11:32 a.m. “Mami call me it’s important.” Cellular networks in Puerto Rico were still damaged after the Category 4 hurricane, and the messages from her son didn’t go through, the boy’s mother said. When his frantic words finally appeared on her phone, she panicked. Read More She knew her son suffered from depression, which had worsened severely in the aftermath of Maria, she told CNN in an interview this summer. The 2017 storm had left the family, like more than a million others on this US territory, without electricity or running water for what would become months, sowing despair, uncertainty, illness and contributing to deaths. Before the hurricane, her teenage boy had made remarkable progress in recovering from another tragedy — his father’s death from cancer one year before. The death had inspired him to become a nurse, according to relatives. The teenager had just started classes at a university, giving him a new sense of purpose — clarity about his future. Then came Hurricane Maria, shuttering… Read full this story
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