She never spoke of why her time as a field scholar ended. It seemed like she intended to wash away half a year of her life’s memories, in fact. She left South America for good, returned to Puerto Rico, left school, met Paz’s mysterious and dashing grandfather and soon after became pregnant and gave birth to Osvaldo.

Uncle Emilio wasn't really her uncle. He was supposed to be her guardian, but in practice ended up as some combination of Paz del Mar's business manager, taskmaster and disciplinarian.

He was a bully, easily as big as three of her put together, with a face like a ball of clay rolled around in the trimmings on a barbershop floor and hastily sculpted into the general shape of some knuckle-headed 1930's-style mob enforcer.

She stared a">

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margin-right:0in">She never spoke of why her time as a field scholar ended. It seemed like she intended to wash away half a year of her life’s memories, in fact. She left South America for good, returned to Puerto Rico, left school, met Paz’s mysterious and dashing grandfather and soon after became pregnant and gave birth to Osvaldo.

Uncle Emilio wasn't really her uncle. He was supposed to be her guardian, but in practice ended up as some combination of Paz del Mar's business manager, taskmaster and disciplinarian.

He was a bully, easily as big as three of her put together, with a face like a ball of clay rolled around in the trimmings on a barbershop floor and hastily sculpted into the general shape of some knuckle-headed 1930's-style mob enforcer.

She stared a...

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