Lety, a homegirl who has been through the wringer and then back again, sits snug up to the front of my desk. Name any horrific, terrible thing that could befall a human being and it’s befallen her: prison, drug addiction, domestic violence, kids taken away. It would be a far shorter list if you wrote down the horrific things that haven’t happened to her. In fact, I can’t think of anything. I would not have survived one day in her childhood. She’s asking me for some help when she suddenly says, “I wish you were God.” I laugh, but I see that Lety, a famous chillona (crybaby), is starting to well
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