“Don’t look so sad,” she said, touching my cheek. “All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.”
This is a very important chapter in the book, in which we learn what happened to Joanna before our story started. She is finally able to grieve, to mourn and to move on. Paola is taking the place of the mother Joanna lost—warm, loving, understanding.
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