Mariela had been fasting for about 36 hours, her way of asking God for a miracle. She was wracked with uncertainty about whether the man she’d spent half of her life with, the father of her four kids, the romantic who wrote her gushy love poems, was alive. As she waited in a police station for that miracle, they came to her with news so crushing she felt it in her chest. (Photo: Kaitlin Newman/The Baltimore Banner)
