Moreno. This is Alicia Almonte. A valued possession of mine seems to have gone missing. Please contact me at your earliest convenience to discuss the matter. . . . Perhaps I will have to fill out one of your surveys after all. Thank you.” It was eight o'clock in the morning, the week after the Almonte move and, with only beer and sour milk in his refrigerator, Tito was on his way up Broadway to get some breakfast before starting work. He couldn't believe that she'd checked on the photograph. First time he steals from a client and he gets caught! He shouldn't have gone back to talk to her about Clara. It had obviously sent her down memory lane to the Julia Alvarez book. He had the photograph in his pocket, ready to return it and throw himself on her mercy. He'd already been into Kinko's the day before to have it scanned. A copy of the image was in his phone and another rested in his e-mail in-box at work. Even so, he didn't want to part with the original. He sensed that she would understand, that she would forgive him—at least he hoped so, hoped that some kind of connection had been forged because of their mutual curiosity about Clara.
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