Marc has gone. He left yesterday with the Peraltas. They’re gone for good too. They were the ones Marc managed to reach. They’ve always felt that we should be more Christian and more patriotic. They say Andrew Jarret is our elected leader—Ramiro Peralta and his daughter Pilar helped elect him—and a minister of God, so he deserves our respect. Esteban Peralta is going to enlist in the army. He believes—the whole family believes—it’s our patriotic duty, everyone’s duty, to support Jarret in his “heroic” effort to revive and reunify the country. They don’t believe Jarret’s a fascist. They don’t
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