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"After years of torment, I now rally for a better society," he explains.

Forty years after William Pynchon’s books were burned in Boston, the nearby Salem witch trials exploded, with the state murdering 14 women and five men and tormenting nearly 200 others for demonic sorcery.

For two years, he left Daniel’s room untouched, but the image of the empty bed tormented him, so Puerta replaced it with two recliners.

In his Sunday Angelus, the Pope also prayed for peace, including in "tormented Ukraine, Palestine, Israel", adding: "From here, war appears even more absurd."

But like many of those who saved lives that day, she still torments herself.