My dad’s voice cut through the Christmas music like glass shattering on the floor. The lights on the tree flickered, […]
Back then, Ms. Maria Santos was already in her early thirties. She lived alone in an old teachers’ dormitory at
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The taxi driver hesitated before pulling away from the curb. He looked in his rearview mirror at the elderly woman
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It was just after dawn when I dragged myself through the door of the laundromat, my seven-month-old daughter asleep in