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• She studied her face: brown angular features, high cheekbones. Adriana concentrated, turning her gaze on her mouth and head: thick lips; short, curled hair.
• She was twenty-four years old,
• Adriana was only four years old, but she knew that her mother had killed her father. She knew because she had been there when it had happened.
• Struggling to control her racing heart because she feared another breathing attack, Adriana conjured her mother’s image in her mind: brown complexion, willowy body, black straight hair that hung to her waist. As a young woman, she had migrated with her family from Campeche in Mexico to Los Angeles. In that city she met Adriana’s father, loved him, ...
• Then the image of Adriana’s father rose from the rubble of her little-girl memory. She saw the skin of his African ancestors, the muscular body inherited from a mix of races, the nappy hair of his family.