Jasko, now 25, first became aware of the unusual spot in 2016 when she was a senior in high school. She’d been getting her nails done once or twice a month for a couple of years, complete with acrylics — artificial nails applied on top of her natural nails — plus a gel polish t...
I look back at her as she shakes the dust off her armor, unmoved by the chaos. Her serenity raises the hair on the back of my neck. Her school is destroyed, her son and foe escaped, the city an absolute disaster. And yet she is remarkably calm about it all. “There!” Laia grabs...