Episode 7, A Prism

What you've heard so far has been everything.

Everything that happened in Paulina's story,

up to the moment she came to me that day in the cafe.

Paulina was in the midst of every mother's nightmare,

uncertain of whether she'd be able to keep her babies.

The girls had already disappeared once.

They were gone, and I broke down after that.

It was crazy. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever been to in my life.

Paulina felt like her entire community was stacked against her,

so she took extreme measures.

She went to court. She went to the media.

She went to me.

And I went against my family because my family didn't want me to do things the American way.

If I did do it the American way, they said they disown me.

And I said, I don't care.

I'm not losing my kids again, so everyone could disown me like I'll live without you guys.

Paulina knew the repercussions of what she was doing.

Going to the courts and going to the media are two of the biggest betrayals in her culture.

She was seen as a disgrace.

But Paulina didn't care.

She was disillusioned and done.

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