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to know that she was looking at her brother’s CREDITS
belongings, but she checked the remaining
photos to make sure. They were two pieces of
jewelry, a brown Catholic prayer necklace and
a gold necklace with a name scrawled across it:
CHRISTIAN.
Six months later, Officer Lizz Smith gently
broke the news to the Gonzalez family that
the results of their cheek-swab DNA tests had
come back, and they were a match for OpID
#0383. A little before 1:00 P.M. on Saturday,
April 7, 2018, the Gonzalez family arrived at
a different Sacred Heart—not the cemetery
in Falfurrias where at least 163 migrants were
once buried but Sacred Heart Catholic Church
in downtown Palestine, their hometown.
Zaira planned the funeral so that her parents
wouldn’t have to, and she tried to think of ev-
erything. She picked out the spray of red and
white flowers and the dark polished-wood cas-
ket and the high school photos of her brother,
one from graduation and one from a soccer
game, which were propped up on easels around
it. She arranged with Kate Spradley for the fu-
neral home to pick up the small box of Chris-
tian’s remains and organized a small fund-
raiser to help pay for the funeral costs. Before
she left the house that day, she made sure her
mother had a jacket, because the temperature
was much cooler than the previous day’s. She
also asked the funeral home to secure the top
of the casket. She was worried that her father,
in his grief, might open it.
Then, just before the service was to begin,
it struck Zaira that she had forgotten to ask a
friend, someone who knew Christian well, to
share some words about him. She and her par-
ents were all too distraught to speak. Father
Victor would be giving a full Catholic mass in
Spanish. It needed something personal.
Across the crowd, Zaira spotted Marty
Flynn, Christian’s youth leader from Life Teen,
entering the church. She ran over and tugged
on his arm. Would he do it?
Of course he would.
Flynn does not remember exactly what he
said that day—it was a blur, spontaneous, from
his heart. The emotional pitch of the afternoon
swirled everything together.
Here’s what he’s pretty sure he was able to
communicate to the people who came and
filled the church to capacity that day:
That Christian’s life had meaning. That he
deserved better than what had happened to
him. That he was sensitive, and unique, and
loved by so many people. That he made mis-
takes, as we all do. That he treated others with
kindness and dignity.
And all that kindness, all that grace, was
with him when he died. And in that way, Flynn
told the crowd, no matter where he was in his
final moments, Christian Gonzalez did not
die alone.