This vignette envisions Maricela's diary entries as a portal into her mind, a portal to deep suffering following her personal loss of freedom. Her story is not that of a sympathetic heroine, but of a girl motivated by survival. It shows the depths to which people can be taken when needing to survive. Another theme revolves around war secrets that isolate people like Maricela. The diary invites people to question human goodness.

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