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spends his last years helping organize the school archives. It is his penance, though you never call it that aloud. He becomes gentler, smaller, more honest. You forgive him slowly, not as a daughter forgetting harm, but as a woman choosing not to carry his cowardice forever.

Sofía eventually leaves Puebla for Mexico City.

She does not marry for money.continue reading …