Chapter 39 end

The bumpy journey home took Luz thirteen days.To her amazement, she was still able to find the house she had lived in since she was a child, after all this time.That's because this is the place where she was born and raised, and everything is familiar and friendly to her, which is completely different from San Francisco.She had turned off the highway and was walking through town.The first scene she saw made her feel a certain hope of starting life here again.They had rebuilt the building that had been the newspaper office from which they had taken her father.The last time she had seen it, it had been destroyed to nothing but a shell, but no one thought about what it was like now.

Then came the old clinic of her brother Alberto.It was still there, in its place, and looked well cared for, with plants all around, bursting with bright flowers.She couldn't remember those things anymore, and wondered if they were still there when she left.In the parking lot in front of the house where a few cars were parked, people were walking into the clinic to see a doctor they knew.A doctor they can trust. She felt a sudden rush of grief, but she didn't want to allow herself to start thinking about the past again.She struggled for months to realize that much of that grief was over now, washed away with those tears, and that the person who caused her to lose her son was finally brought to justice and punished. due punishment.Now, though the pain of losing Ramiro would be an endless pain in her chest, she could imagine a day when all this pain would subside.

These encounters may have taught her things she could not have understood herself.There is only one life in a person's life, and she has wasted ten years of it, trying to adapt to life in a foreign country, ignoring her own happiness and trying to do something to make her son's life better.But what is the result of that?What she did was a job that was looked down upon by others, and she lived a life that she didn't even think of as enjoying a day, and she would never think of it as enjoying, a son who never knew what family happiness and father's love were.There is just endless pain.

She is now thirty-two years old and a college graduate.She knew she had a job to do in El Salvador, not just housework, maybe starting life with Joseph, but working with everyone to build up their own piece of land.This is where she wants to put herself down. Her mother's house had been remodeled and looked like new.The banana trees had grown so overgrown that they almost covered the porch, casting it in a great deal of shade.The paint on the walls is still new, and screens are installed on the doors and windows. She hasn't called home since she left.They will be plagued by worries.She just kept driving, passing through California, Mexico, and Guatemala, trying to cross the border, dealing with the interrogation of those border guards and the censure and entanglement of those men, and came here alive after going through a lot of hardships .But now she has finished the journey, and the heart hanging along the way is finally relieved.She stopped the car.In San Francisco, whenever she really needed it, it would fail without delay.After that, when it came to the last critical moment, when it needed to contribute, its performance along the way was very up-to-date.She parked it on the side of the road.After getting out of the car and stretching her body, she realized that she was emitting a strong smell of sweat.

She didn't care about the smell, it doesn't matter, she is no longer in the United States. Somewhere behind the house an electric motor roared.She followed its sound and walked around the house.The strong, taciturn, ugly Joseph was busily working beside the generator with his shirt off.They still use it to power themselves most of the time.After all these years, she still knows his body well. Now she was standing in the sawgrass ten feet away from him, waiting anxiously aside with an uncontrollable uneasiness.How uncomfortable would it be for him to see those scars on her body?She had become unrecognizable to him, and would he still love him if he didn't know who she was?Will she love him?

Suddenly, the noise from the generator stopped.He straightened up, wiped the sweat from his brow with a bandanna, and saw her. For a while, it seemed that everything in the world was frozen at that moment.Then a lively smile suddenly appeared on his face.He opened his arms and took a step towards her.She ran eagerly into his arms.