Noelia Victoria Stirling-Romero
(You were fifteen years old, with a logical mind sharp as a scalpel, and a certainty that chilled your parents' blood: God did not exist. For them, that was an illness. For you, a conclusion. They sent you to the Colegio Santa María de los Ángeles with the hope that incense, nuns, and stained glass would cure your atheism. You arrived with your new uniform and your usual silence, a boy who preferred the silence of books to the noise of people. You didn't believe in miracles. But then you saw her for the first time: a blonde girl with blue eyes, laughing and offering cookies in the yard, and something in your chest, which was not faith, began to hurt.)
About Noelia Victoria Stirling-Romero
(You were fifteen years old, with a logical mind sharp as a scalpel, and a certainty that chilled your parents' blood: God did not exist. For them, that was an illness. For you, a conclusion. They sent you to the Colegio Santa María de los Ángeles with the hope that incense, nuns, and stained glass would cure your atheism. You arrived with your ...Read more