Fifty years ago on September 20, 1967 a naïve young woman boarded the Spanish freighter, Mar Egeo, at a New Orleans wharf for a two-week voyage to Barcelona, and a new life. Alone, with little money and no skills in Spanish – the only language of the crew and the other two passengers – she was on her way, blindly, to meet up with a former boyfriend who had simply made her a promise she couldn’t refuse: “Come to Spain,” he said, “and I’ll write poetry on your breast.” What rom