Joseph, a lanky design major and one of Pedro’s earliest customers, stepped up from the back of the line. “Let me help,” he offered. “We’ll make a missing poster for her. I can design something quickly.” Pedro’s brows lifted, touched. “You’d really do that?” Joseph nodded. “She’s part of this place.”
Within twenty minutes, Joseph had sketched a clean, striking poster—Lola mid-stride, leaf in mouth, her name in bold above a brief description. Another student offered to handle printing. Pedro pressed a few bills into his hand, and by mid-afternoon, they had a stack of over a hundred missing posters ready to go.