Ana's Story
A Journey of Hope
Chapter One
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Ana had one picture of her mother. It was not an original photograph but a
color photocopy.
The image had been laminated, sealed in plastic for protection, so that it
would last forever. When she was ten, Ana decorated the corners with
sparkly stickers of flowers and stars. She handled the photocopy so often
that the corners had started to curl and the plastic had begun to fray and
come apart.
All of her life, Ana's aunts and uncles told her that she looked just like
her mamá. Ana sometimes stood in front of the mirror, holding the
photocopy next to her face. She wanted to see if her eyes really were the
same as her mother's. Ana shifted her focus from her eyes to her mother's
eyes until the images blurred and she could not tell where her mother
ended and she began.
In the photocopy, Ana's mother was young; she was only sixteen when Ana
was born. She had big brown eyes and feathers of dyed blond hair. Her
skin, the color of cocoa, looked fresh, smooth, and polished. Ana hoped
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