To Elena, $
existence is an )\=eff:?-ort @—$:n; ot only does she! st]^r
,!^uggle ag)ainst her ` body )/a/ffected]
by Parkins^.on’s, 
but her daughter has just shown up dead and! only sh)? .e finds ] the $sui[cide hypothesis imp lausible,. El((/en(a (is no$+t a good v?ic`ti#m, and do %esn
’=t show )sign )s of ]_having been; a selfles;s+?* moth?er- . S:he is vulnerabl;-e, but also ov-$:ercome by r% age *-\and sorr-ow, a!$nd that s/+]tubbornness
= seems to re[nde r her...