Everyone ignored the neighbor, tell me… until the daughter of a multimillionaire said:
“Dad… she has the same birthmark as you.”

“Dad… look at his doll.”
At first, Alejandro stopped hearing the noise of the city.
I couldn’t hear the car horns.
I couldn’t hear the street vendors shouting above the traffic on Paseo de la Reforma.
I couldn’t even hear the music coming from an old radio in the middle of the warm afternoon air in .
All I heard… was Camila’s voice—soft, taut, urgent—as if each word were contained in a single breath.