A lawyer revealed that twenty-eight years earlier, Catalina Aranda’s newborn daughter had supposedly died during an arson attack in San Miguel de Allende.
But the death certificate had been falsified, social workers were bribed, and the baby was secretly placed into foster care under the name Mariana Torres.
I was that child. My entire life, I believed I had been abandoned, only to discover I had actually been stolen.
As tears filled Catalina’s eyes, she whispered that she had never stopped searching for me-
