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

learned to raise his daughter with a mixture of fierce love and exhausted clumsiness.

Alicia arrived later, without making grand promises.

He didn’t try to take anyone’s place.

It simply began to exist.

First came the small hand reaching for his as they crossed the street.

Then the drawings were stuck on the refrigerator.

Then came the nights when Lucia continue reading …