I would be on my way home and would not return for another twelve years, the years of the civil war that could not be prevented and would claim almost one hundred thousand lives, with eight thousand people disappeared, five hundred thousand internally displaced, and another five hundred thousand taking refuge in other countries. Leonel would remind me that history counts its casualties in round numbers. I would not return until “the signing of the peace” in 1992. Within a week of my departure, Monseñor Romero would be assassinated in the chapel of Divine Providence while celebrating Mass for
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