Reyna was gone almost every evening, rarely returning from her pretzel job before 2 A.M. “She was nice, you know, trying to do the best she could,” Hernandez says. “But the thing is, the mom, she has to work. That’s what people don’t understand. They’ll be like, ‘Why can’t the parents take care of these kids?’ Because, you know what? The mom has to work just to survive.”
