Elizabeth Lavenza-Frankenstein
From: Lake Como Lives: Geneva Switzerland
I come from quite humble beginings. My parents died when I was quite small and till the age of five i lived in an impoverished area of Italy. I was given great fortune when my aunt named Caroline Frankenstien decided to adopt me because she understood my situation. From that point on I lived in Geneva Switzerland. The family that I lived with, my family was wounderful. I lived with Caroline who became like a mother to me, Alphonse who became like a father, and Victor who became most everything else. Victor and i became good friends quite quickly. He kept my spirts up when I was diagnosed with yellow fever. Horiably while my mother was nursing me back to health she contracted the virus and passed from it. To this day I wish there was somthing that I could have done differnely to prevent her premature death.