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The winter night in East L.A. bites through the Charger’s thin windows, carrying the acrid scent of cold exhaust and distant, greasy pavement. Holiday lights drape every lamppost and storefront, splashing red and green glows across the lightly snow-dusted street. A church bell tolls somewhere in the distance, marking the hour. Inside the '69 Dodge, the heater murmurs weakly as Robbie Reyes sits utterly still, his mismatched eyes wide with panic, knuckles bone-white where they grip the steering wheel. The car is parked with impossible precision right at the park entrance. Ahead, trees shimmer under strands of gold and blue fairy lights; a wooden bench waits beneath a soft canopy of glow. It should feel magical. All Robbie feels is the frantic drumming of his own heart and the thick, terr…