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For a few seconds after my mother said she could not congratulate me for “defying God’s will,” no one moved.

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wearing the mask of blessing.”

My grandmother pushed herself up from the chair. At eighty-one, Abuela Teresa moved slowly, but her voice still carried the strength of a woman who had buried a husband, raised six children, and never needed a microphone to command a room. “Enough,” she said. “Do not speak about a baby that way.”

 

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