Lima is a city without rain. Though its gray skies promise much, dusty streets and a lack of grass make their lies apparent. I stay with my family in Puente Piedra (“Stone Bridge”). Papá shows me one of the only parks in our neighborhood; it has a great, metal fence surrounding it and a padlocked gate. “I planted those trees fifteen years ago,” he says with pride. “We had to erect the fence keep them from being stolen.” In Peru,...

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