Later, as an adult, she found herself homeless after her husband fled with their possessions and money while she was out of town.
The husband, who would identify himself only as Jean, 38, fled Haiti in 1986.
Her husband, meanwhile, would flee the dinner table every time she tried to talk about their son.
My husband, two expatriate friends and I were fleeing the Western tourist culture that has taken root there.
When the woman asked her father for more money, and he refused, the husband beheaded his wife and fled.
Her husband fled the Duvalier regime 45 years ago, at the age of 20.
As the front approached the compound, Ms. Brotman and her husband did not flee.
The woman's husband had fled into the palm groves twice.
Her husband and son fled into the hills, and at first she hoped they would outrun the Serbs.
After being accused of spying, she and her husband fled to Mexico.