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She looks around eleven, maybe twelve.
Her clothes are clean but worn thin at the elbows, her sneakers dulled by too many days and not enough replacements, and a faded backpack rests in her lap as if she does not entirely trust the ground with her belongings.
When Emilio sits beside her, she smiles with a brightness that startles Miguel because it transforms her face so completely you can almost miss the exhaustion underneath it.
Then the boy opens his lunchbox.
He breaks his expensive sandwich in half and hands one piece to the girl. He lines up fruit between them as if he has done this many times.
He passes over a juice carton, and the two of them eat and talk with the easy rhythm of people who already know each other’s silences.
Miguel remains still, one hand braced against the tree bark, watching his son laugh with this unknown child while the city hums on, oblivious.
