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“I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower.”

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“I’d leave this house the first chance I got, but not by chasing after a boy, including my brother. I’d do it on my own terms, following my dreams, not someone else’s.”

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“Keep your goal in sight. Keep your priorities straight, and it will all be worth it.”

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“To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.”

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“Twenty years from now, would that be me? Would I be resigned to my fate, pushing my daughter toward the light so she could be free? Or pulling her down so I wouldn’t be along in the dark?”

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“Scoring a goal is almost like kissing. The more you do it, the more you want. I wanted to keep scoring until it hurt.”

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“Our family was stuck in a cosmic hamster wheel of toxic love, making the same mistakes, saying the same words, being hurt in the same ways generation after generation. I didn’t want to keep playing a role in this tragedy of errors.”

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“The sense of wonder and possibility – that I owed to the Argentine women who had fought for freedom before the universe conspired and the stars aligned to make me.”

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“The girl Diego said he loved was the strong one, the winning Camila, the one with a future she was forging for herself… If he rescued me, if I quit for him. I wouldn’t be the girl he loved. I wouldn’t be myself.”

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“Did something count as a miracle if it possible only because of a lie?”

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“I was tired of running. We were all buried underneath mountains of blame, shame, guilt, and lies.”

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“I wanted what he Diego had. I needed to play on a team like that, to feel the love of the fans. I needed the chance to do something impossible and amazing. To be great.”

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“I had forgotten how beautiful fútbol was. Without referees, lines on the ground, trophies, tournaments, or life-changing contracts, the ball was a portal to happiness.”

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“Rosario showed a different face depending on how you looked at her. She changed when you saw her from a bus, or a luxury car, or your own feet.”

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“When we played, we were all the same. We were all one.”

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“The rest of my life is a mess, but at least on the pitch I get to do what I love.”

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“I felt joy for being alive, playing a sport that a generation ago could have landed me in prison.”

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“Lies have long legs.”

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“I was just a girl with strong legs and a stubborn streak.”

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“I was the barefoot schoolgirl in my barrio apartment; he was a star flashing past us all, and the glow would disappear with him when he left again.”

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