On my daughter’s first birthday, my mother-in-law …

PART 1

—Before we sing Las Mañanitas, I want to know if this blue-eyed girl is really my son’s daughter.

The entire hall froze.

Daniela Salgado felt Lucía, her one-year-old baby, cling tightly to her neck with biscuit-crusted little hands. The girl wore a white dress, a lace bow, and had enormous blue eyes that sparkled under the chandeliers of the private club in Polanco.

It had all been Teresa Aranda’s idea—her mother-in-law.

White flowers. Golden glasses. Immaculate tables. Relatives with long surnames and short smiles.

PART 1

My father-in-law served me soup every Saturday, and I would wake up three hours later with my blouse buttoned wrong. My husband always said, “Your blood pressure dropped,” until I recorded seven forbidden seconds.

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