“My Spanish isn’t very good, but I could see it was a Christmas list”

December 22, 2018 6:38 AM

“We now have friends for life,” Heiss said. “And, for a day, that border fence with its concertina wire melted away.” A girl in Mexico attached her Christmas list to a balloon. A man across the border found it. By Amy B Wang Washington Post
posted by pjsky (14 comments total)

Awww.
posted by k8t at 6:43 AM on December 22, 2018

Sweet story, except for the paywall that blocked me from reading it.
posted by mule98J at 6:49 AM on December 22, 2018 [4 favorites]

Does incognito mode not work? That always works for me.
posted by greermahoney at 7:24 AM on December 22, 2018 [2 favorites]

Oh God it's dusty in here! This is why I love Baja Arizona and it's citizens so much! I grew up there. We frequently crossed the border into Nogalas to shop and eat. The friendship between Mexico and the US was apparent all over the region. The border wall is, to me, the most hideous, and heartbreaking aspect of the mindbendingly hideous and heartbreaking Trump garbage fire we suffer through every day.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 8:47 AM on December 22, 2018 [17 favorites]

That was a lovely story, was not ready for the gut punch there at the end. I’m very glad they’ve found healing by giving and creating more love. People are people, everywhere, and we all need each other.
posted by LooseFilter at 9:20 AM on December 22, 2018 [4 favorites]

Incognito no longer works for me, WaPo makes sure it tells me how many articles I have left and am out of again.
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:33 AM on December 22, 2018 [1 favorite]

if one has a public library card they should be able to access newspapers from most major u s cities with it.
posted by brujita at 10:47 AM on December 22, 2018 [1 favorite]

For people paywalled out of the story, coverage from the Arizona Daily Star: Arizona man plays Santa after finding Nogales girl's Christmas wish list tied to balloon.
Picture of the girl and her family in the Nogales International: Balloon carried over the border leads to a Christmas connection.
posted by peeedro at 1:02 PM on December 22, 2018 [4 favorites]

The border wall can be defeated by a balloon?!

(And also by nice people.)

I can just imagine The Donald's midnight tweet: "we're going to need a higher wall!"
posted by chavenet at 1:52 PM on December 22, 2018 [4 favorites]

Wayback machine link here - no paywall.
posted by ErisLordFreedom at 1:58 PM on December 22, 2018

"And, for a day, that border fence with its concertina wire melted away." Jesus. Amazing story, but what a finish.
posted by greenhornet at 6:24 PM on December 22, 2018

Delete your WaPo cookies if you're having trouble.

Or, another Wayback link. (ELF beat me to it.)
posted by snuffleupagus at 9:12 PM on December 22, 2018

Firefox's Private Browsing mode works great with WaPo. Even better it gives you the warm fuzzy feeling of using a web browser that's not created by a gigantic tech quasi-monopoly that is eating the world with questionable business practices.
posted by nnethercote at 12:26 AM on December 23, 2018

I can just imagine The Donald's midnight tweet: "we're going to need a higher wall!"

I'd go with "fricken lasers" for the incompetent villain resonance.
posted by srboisvert at 8:25 AM on December 23, 2018 [1 favorite]