HE SAW HIS EIGHT-MONTHS-PREGNANT WIFE WASHING DISHES ALONE AT 10 P.M., SO HE SAID ONE SENTENCE THAT SHOOK HIS WHOLE FAMILY
The silence after your words feels heavier than the old wooden beams above the living room ceiling
Your sisters stare at you as if you have suddenly begun speaking a language none of them recognizes. Your mother, Rosa Ramírez, sits in her usual armchair with her hands folded over her apron, her face unreadable in that way only mothers from your kind of family can manage. The television is still on, but no one is watching it now. Somewhere in the kitchen, the water has stopped running.
Isabel is the first to speak.
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