SCORED HER HEART, NOT THE PUCK.
Instead, I was walking toward what felt like my execution.
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The taxi ride started normally enough. The driver, an older man with kind eyes and calloused hands, made small talk about the weather while moving through the morning traffic. But as we drove deeper into the city, the conversation took a darker turn.
"Terrible business, this new law," he said, shaking his head. "Don't get me wrong, what happened to that doctor was awful. But innocent people gonna suffer for it."
Through the window, I watched ICE vehicles parked outside businesses, officers in tactical gear conducting "routine inspections" that looked anything but routine. People pressed against storefronts, trying to make themsel
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