After their father walked away one day a year ago, never to be heard from again, their mother had to find work. The five Garza sisters soon abandoned their chores and went a little wild, often going down to a sheltered alcove along the dangerous Rio Grande, where they would swim in the swirling current. That is where they found the dead body.
He hadn’t been dead long, maybe just an hour or so. With no wounds, the girls’ assume he
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drowned. Odilia, the oldest, wants to contact the authorities, but Juanita, the second oldest, is concerned that he will be just plunked into an unmarked grave and his family will never know what happened to him.
After much debate, Juanita pulls the body from the water. A large money roll falls from his boot, and they find a wallet with an expired driver’s license. His name is Gabriel Perdido from El Sacrificio, Mexico. That is where their papa’s
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