Your Daughter Mailed You Shoes Three Sizes Too Small… Five Months Later, You Opened the Box and Found What She Was Really Trying to Hide

You are sixty-two years old, and for most of your life, nothing about you has ever seemed like the beginning of a story people would pass around at church dinners or whisper about at the barber shop.

You have been a carpenter in a small riverside town outside Guadalajara for so many years that the grain of cedar, pine, and …