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“My wedding would be hard for Vanessa?”

“That isn’t what I said.”

“It’s exactly what you said.”

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“Her marriage is going through a difficult time, Daniela. You know that.”

I did know.

Vanessa was thirty-five, three years older than me, married to Esteban Salas, and the mother of five-year-old Lucía and three-year-old Oscar.

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She was also, in ways nobody in our family ever admitted out loud, the center of

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