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

before he woke up.”

Diego accepted that.

He deserved the truth.

“Can I add something?” he asked.

Lucia handed him the paper.

At the bottom, beneath her sentence about shame and sacrifice, Diego wrote:

A man does not honor his mother by hiding where he came from. He honors her by making sure no one, including himself, looks down on it again.

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