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Not a night has gone by over the past year that Gary Bivens hasn’t thought of the son he never got to meet.
The baby’s ashes rest on his bedside table. He’s keeping them there until he is able to reunite with his partner, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, so they can bury them together.
“That’s where he stays till I can get him to Guatemala,” Bivens said.