New Jersey HeraldFor family of Mass. student, no end to the waiting
21.05.12
By BRIDGET MURPHY
Associated Press
NEWTON, Mass. (AP) - New Balance running shoes rest on a Boston College floor mat as Luzmila Garcia starts the climb to her son Franco's attic bedroom.
A messy stack of mostly chemistry textbooks is spread across the 21-year-old's desk. Folded T-shirts crowd a laundry basket on the floor.
"He's the kind of boy who doesn't care about material things," says the 50-year-old mother.
But a week after Franco disappeared, his possessions are the few things to which the Boston College junior's parents can cling.
Besides that, there is just hope. Hope that there is some reason their son hasn't come home. Hope that he still will.
When Luzmila and her husband, Jose, woke up Wednesday, they knew time wasn't on their side.
Friends last saw Franco at a Brighton bar in the wee hours of Feb. 22. After band practice, the chemistry major had gone drinking at the popular college hangout Mary Ann's with college friends.
Source: New Jersey Herald