After what Sofi calls Caridad's "Holy Restoration," Caridad takes her horse Corazón and moves to a trailer park in Albuquerque, where she's watched over by dona Felicia, an old curandera (healer) whose stories of the Mexican Civil War imply she must be over a hundred.
Before she left home, Caridad had begun falling into trances, during which she would have prophetic visions. The first time, she announced the return of Esperanza, now an anchorwoman in Washington, D.C. She said Esperanza was going far away, and was afraid, and they should keep her home. Within minutes Esperanza appeared, on her way to Saudi Arabia to cover the war. Don Domingo, once grateful he'd never had any sons for this very reason, was dismayed at the thought of his only college-educated daughtera civilianbeing sent to the.....
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