Glory Be With You

Themes

• Miami-Dade high school football
• South Florida high school football
• Faith
• The cost of glory

Chapter 3 — Guantanamera

Dawn lifted like a breath across Miami—orange bleeding into blue, water shimmering alive again. A humid day rose, restless and vibrant. By midmorning, the house stirred fully awake, the buzz outside the patio growing. The driveway stretched toward the detached garage, but the real heart of the home was the patio—an open-roofed extension of the kitchen, cluttered with a domino table, a flatscreen on the wall, football posters, and family life spilling in from every direction: kids shouting, a dog barking, a cousin yelling at a video game. By early afternoon, the sun settled over the neighborhood like a warm blanket, thick with the sounds of summer—the steady thump of a trampoline next door, a dog barking at invisible threats, and the crackling chatter of a Spanish AM station drifting through the patio.

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