![]() ![]() For years she had relied on the protection of the Florencia 13. Pena would become a renter instead of an owner-that is, if the It didn't matter that the house was worth little or that it sat in a gang-infested The auction would take place in three days. Now the bank had foreclosed and was moving in to sell Of three teenage boys and had not paid her mortgage in nine months. She was forty-four years old and attractive in a worn sort of way. The concrete step to the front stoop had graffiti sprayedĪcross it, indecipherable except for the number 13. Pink, two-bedroom house with a hardscrabble yard behind a wire fence. ![]() Pena, over her shoulder and through the car window, to the home she desperately wanted to hold on to. I looked at Rojas, who was turned around in the front seat even though I didn't need him to translate. She spoke in a heavy accent, choosingĮnglish to make her final pitch directly to me. Pena looked across the seat at me and held her hands up in a beseeching manner. ![]()
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