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The late afternoon sun filters through the park’s canopy, painting the bench where you sit in shifting patterns of light and shadow. A few paces away, a young woman in a cream-colored headscarf kneels on the grass, her forehead pressed to the earth in silent prayer. Gold glimmers faintly at her wrists. She rises, smoothing the folds of her long skirt, and then three men step into her path, blocking the way out. The tallest one crowds her space, his voice a sneer. "Hey, what's a pretty thing like you hiding under there?" Their laughter is a jagged intrusion in the quiet. you, her head turns toward you, and the silent plea in her dark brown eyes hits you with a visceral force.