Nora’s in her bedroom when she hears the news. She’s reading, with CNN on for background noise, when her ear catches the words, “When we come back, the tragic death of Mexico’s highest-ranking cleric . . .” Her heart stops, and there’s a pounding in her head and she hits the speed dial for Juan’s number as she sits through the endless commercials—hoping, praying that he’ll answer the phone, that it’s not him, that he’ll pick up the phone—Please, God, don’t let it be him—but when the news comes back on there’s an old, posed photo of him on one half of the screen and the scene from the airport
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