From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavarro.

This is the Daily.

By Monday evening, the death toll from the flooding in central Texas had surpassed 100,

27 of them from a single place, Camp Mystic, a century-old all-girls Christian summer camp.

Today, the story of what that camp meant to the generations of girls who attended it.

I spoke with one of them, Aaron Paisan.

It's Tuesday, July 8th.

Well, Aaron, thank you for making time for us.

We really appreciate it.

You're welcome.

It's been a hard three days for a lot of us in the Mystic community.

My first year at Mystic was 1975 when I was 10.

And my mom sent me for five weeks.

And how many years did you end up at Camp Mystic?

Okay, so it was a bubble in, tumble in, look in, lookout.

Idiots.

Idiots. That's the name of a cabin?

Idiots Delight was the name of it.

I was there six summers.

Mm-hmm.

I was not there as much as a lot of other people,

but it was just a very special place for me in the years that I've spent there.

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