Reflections from Las Ninas The River When my Dad and I were driving back from Guatemala City after dropping Taylor off at the airport, our driver said that we were twenty minutes away. I was happy. Then, we went around the curve… and there was A RIVER IN THE ROAD! It was raining so hard. It had been raining for the past four hours. If you stacked two notebooks from top to bottom, that was about how deep it was, or maybe even deeper. I kept asking Dad, “Are we going to go through it?” And I kept saying, “I don’t want to go through it!” But then, our driver said, “If all of these cars are going through it, I think we can too.” I said, “No, No, No”, but then I said, “OK.” I
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