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(Irene Rios)
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Who could Irene Rios be?
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Did she really exist?
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Or was she just an imaginary figure?
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Why did Dad write her name so many times?
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Mom, do you know Irene Rios?
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No.
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Who is she?
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No one - a new girl
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who just arrived in my class.
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I lied the first time
I spoke of Irene Rios
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My mother's ignorance made me suspect that
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behind this woman's name
my father was hiding something
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unknown to me.
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Thus without hardly realizing it,
I became his secret accomplice.
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A few months later
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when I least expected it
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something extraordinary happened.
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I discovered that Irene Rios existed for real.
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It was on a winter afternoon,
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just as school was getting out.