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Clean bandit symphony music sheet5/31/2023 She kneels and kisses Belky and hugs her tightly. It is for them she is leaving, she tells herself, but still, she feels guilty. She will be gone for one year, less with luck, or she will bring her children to be with her. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. Lourdes cannot afford uniforms or pencils. He and Belky are not likely to finish grade school. She fills a wooden box with gum and crackers and cigarettes, and she finds a spot where she can squat on a dusty sidewalk next to the downtown Pizza Hut and sell the items to passersby. Lourdes, 24, scrubs other people’s laundry in a muddy river. She can barely afford food for him and his sister, Belky, who is 7. They live on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, in Honduras. Lourdes loves him so much she cannot bring herself to say a word.
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