The night Camila died in front of her car, my mother was praying for the woman who had her killed—until the truth behind that prayer was finally revealed.

without me.” Camila always did that.

If a mother couldn’t pay, she would invent a scholarship.

If a child cried in the chair, she would pull dinosaur stickers from her coat pocket.

I told her the world would take advantage of her.

She just laughed.

—Then let them take advantage a little, Ricardo.

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