Sinay

Three leagues farther is the valley of Sinay, which is under the same encomendero of Bantay, and has a population of about one thousand six hundred.

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Sinay kept repeating that she hadn't known what else to do.

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Sinay feared she might die herself, and so her son would be better off at an orphanage for HIV+ babies.

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Then Sinay, on her own and at her own pace, told us that her son was born in Phnom Penh soon after her husband died and she herself was weak and without work.

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Sinay would pause, continue her story, and then pause again.

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Do I know for sure that Sinay wasn't the one who gave HIV to her first husband?

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We were driving back to the Centre when I casually asked if Sinay had ever given birth.

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Sinay's son would now be four and she hadn't seen him in years.

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Sok clasped his hands and held them in his lap while Sinay kept her gaze steadily on the back of the driver's seat.

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Sinay now sits uncomfortably while the instructor, volunteer Glenn Ricci from New Hope, Pennsylvania has everyone gathered around her -- I'm guessing Sinay wishes she could be anywhere but here.

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