Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light is low in Adelaida Rosado's New York City apartment, and shadows fill her eyes, for she is a mother who loves an only son who has been called the devil incarnate...
...Rosado is 80 years old, and nothing good has ever fallen her way. But she will see him tonight, and that is enough for now. "I lost a daughter and a son, and my husband too. He's all I've got left." She shows you yellowed photographs of John, 39, and the shadows begin to recede, and then she shows you the Bible that gets her through the day. Barely 5 ft. tall, she slides into her overcoat and pauses to make the sign of the cross before a cardboard crucifix as she slips out the front door...
...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...
...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 her son...