HE TOOK HIS FIANCÉE TO HIS POOR HOMETOWN TO TEST HER—BUT THE PAPER SHE HANDED HIM LEFT HIM TOO ASHAMED TO MEET HER EYES

and realizes your family isn’t rich.”

Diego laughed along with them.

But inside, the doubt began to take root.

He had grown up in a small town outside San Antonio, where his mother, Carmen Martinez, still lived alone in an aging brick house with a rusted tin roof, peeling paint, a dirt yard, vegetable rows, cactus pots, and an old wood stove she stubbornly continue reading …