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For several seconds I stayed frozen with the phone in my hand, staring at my reflection in the black screen. Beside me, Don Raúl shifted but did not wake. His face remained relaxed in sleep, softened by age, by trust, by the exhaustion of a man who had spent too much of the past year defending his right to exist in peace.
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Outside, somewhere beyond the courtyard, a dog barked once and then again farther away. The lemon tree brushed lightly against the outer wall in the night breeze. The whole house felt tense
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