The building bore her name… and she feared the worst.

continued to pass.

There were notebooks, vaccines, school reports, bowls of soup, unpaid bills, and modest birthdays celebrated with cheap balloons and a small cake.

Alicia was in all of them.

She was also there for the silent defeats: when Lucía failed an important exam, when a friend betrayed her, when the first boy who promised her love ended up breaking continue reading …