
Echoes of Abandonment: A Journey from Orphanage to Reunion
Isolation and neglect characterized Bernardo Briceño’s early recollections. He remembered clearly how his tiny body shook in the gloomy light as he crawled out of a creaking cot in a cold, echoing orphanage as a toddler. The atmosphere was one of fear and hunger, broken by the distant sounds of irate voices debating him. In…