Word: rosado
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...Snow, ice, rain, I don't care," Mrs. Rosado says. "I missed two weeks because of surgery. They gave me a colostomy. And one time I came here, and the snow was up to here. That's the third week I missed...
...Rosado has earned the front seat of the packed 14-passenger van as it sets out with its cargo of broken hearts across the frozen streams of New Jersey and the ghostly, moonlit fields of Pennsylvania snow country. She is going to see a son who did 14 years for a horrific sexual assault, was freed in 1994, then committed a string of crimes even more ghastly...
...collective pox on the parole board that ever sees fit to unleash this demon on society again," New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin Torres said in sentencing John Rosado to 50 to 100 years in prison, calling him the devil incarnate. "And if necessary, I will arise from my mouldy grave to visit it on them myself...
...Rosado forgives what she can; the rest she refuses to believe. Born in Cuba, she left a bad marriage in 1957 and found another one in America. Her husband beat John from the beginning, she says. "And he beat me too." She says nothing about her son, or herself, that means as much as this: "I'm his mother. This is what a mother does...
...steady rain falls all the way home, and the snow and ice fade into darkness again. Mrs. Rosado looks out the window in silence, hiding what she needs to out there. And then her thoughts drift to next week's visit with...