Status Updates From A Flower Traveled in My Blo...

"Staring out the car window, she glimpsed a headless corpse that had been tossed on the side of the road like garbage."

"A police doctor called to examine the bodies determined that the cause of their deaths had not been drowning, but “crashing against hard objects after falling from a great height.” No one tried to identify the deceased—they were quickly swept to a cemetery forty minutes inland and buried under the soil."

"She feared it was only a matter of time before she was taken too. In her pocket, Miriam carried a homemade cyanide pill, hidden inside a lipstick tube. Many Montoneros carried such pills. If they were caught, they wanted to be in control of how they died, before they could be forced to give up their friends."

How is this my first time learning about Mary-Claire King? The genetic work the abuelas pushed for is incredible - and I think I'm off to a rabbit hole on Dr. King