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The last time I saw Betzi I expected to see her again soon. I never imagined how mistaken I could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day was hot and the dust from the road was rising despite being a couple of weeks short of spring. Tensions were high between Betzi and her mom. Normal teenage stuff \u2013 school, friends, the cell phone. I was flying home the next day and had come to say goodbye. I always hated leaving because I never knew what awaited me when I returned. This day was the worst. Amid the heat, the familial stress and a growing global pandemic, I felt something slipping away \u2013 a tenuous grip on an education, on a chance for Betzi to be more. More of what exactly didn\u2019t matter. Just more than what she was born into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betzi was abloom with adolescence, a wildflower of a chica, all legs, attitude and desire for independence. I wanted to fence her in, to protect her against the predatory poverty that destroys such precocious blossoms. A suffocating heaviness befell me, the realization of my powerlessness over her fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a cab to the city came, I hugged Betzi and said: \u201cDon\u2019t worry. I\u2019ll be here with you. See you in July.\u201d I didn\u2019t return then, nor for a long time. Every day while I was gone I wondered if the Betzi I said goodbye to, the girl with the best grades, the rapid wit, and the smile that touches your soul, was still there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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