She had to face his mother. She had to cry and pray with her and watch the earth cover Eduardo's casket. His body was found the next morning in the driveway of a house where one of the two, 20-ish suspects had once lived. The house was in manicured, mannered Carrollwood, a place people move to because they have a picture of it in their heads. The picture has nothing to do with reality.
People believe it anyway.
Foreigners look at this country this way, as if every inch of it were Carrollwood. Certainly Mrs. Tranquilini did. I'm so confused about it . . . I thought we were safer here. But here people have everything they want.