Aubrey Vailoces evacuated her Maui home before fires burned it down. A few days later, she was surprised when an old photo of hers turned up on a beach.
, she figured they had lost all of their possessions. She especially regretted losing the photo album, which she used to revisit her childhood in the Philippines.
The album included hundreds of photos of Vailoces and Macairan from graduations, awards receptions and trips. One of Vailoces’s favorite photos showed Macairan holding her hand when Vailoces sat in a hospital bed after coming down with a fever. Later that day, Vailoces and her family enjoyed a feast of rotisserie pig, rice noodles, deviled eggs, rice and a salad that nobody ate. There was also a square vanilla cake with the words “Happy Graduation Apple” written in frosting — because family members called Vailoces the “apple of my eye.”Two days after she graduated, Vailoces flew to Chicago to live with her parents and study accounting. Macairan gave Vailoces the photo album and told her she could always call the Philippines her home.
In February 2022, Vailoces purchased a house in Lahaina with her partner, Tad Luckey. The same day, Vailoces learned she was pregnant with another daughter. The next morning, Vailoces heard from neighbors that her neighborhood had burned down. She went door-to-door asking if anyone had diapers or baby bottles. The family visited a local fire station for supplies when Vailoces’s twins reminded her that their younger sister,On Aug. 12, Vailoces received an unexpected Facebook message. That morning, someone had found a half-burned photo in Lanai and posted it online.
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