La Y de la Laguna is a community of about 30 families situated on a hill overlooking a rapidly vanishing megadiversity zone. Its heart gives rise to two sopping trailroads, in the form of a ´Y´, falling towards about 12 communities known as ¨Al Dentro.¨ It also overlooks a distinctly ´Y´ shaped laguna. Thus begins my confusion concerning what has been my home the last month, and where I will remain the next five. I arrived in La Y (pronounced ¨La Yeh¨) the 18th of April, or about 10 days before scheduled. The night of the 17th I got a phone call in Quito saying the rural doctor assigned to the clinic had a bellyache and decided to head home early, before the weekend rush. The next morning I rode my unprepared, reeling, but thrilled
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