At 10 am his face was on the screen of the intercom, and I buzzed him in as he said "I come up." I had never met him, but had gotten a call the day before: I am .... Tomorrow I will show you how to get to work. I'll be there are 10. This was probably the fifth or sixth of these calls that I had gotten in my first five days in Lima, and I'm still not sure who all of these people are. I locked the door behind me to the empty apartment, since the woman who's home I had been living in still hadn't come back from vacation, and met the boy downstairs. Mundo Libre is the shelter for abused, homeless, and drug-addicted children that the volunteer organization had set up for
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