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Submitted to Contest #251
It was Desi, the doorman, that found Zaida Perez dead in the apartment. It was also Desi who called Javier, Zaida’s nephew, to tell him that his Tia Zaida was gone. Desi might have only been a doorman, but in many ways, he was more like Zaida’s son. Desi was Cuban, like Zaida and the rest of the Perez family. Except unlike most of the Perez family, Desi had to escape. He’d left everything behind to come to the states. Sure, Zaida lived in a penthouse apartment, and he was on the ground floor, but there was always something else bet...
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