She was pregnant. He couldn’t stop smiling. They said goodbye with the promise of returning in two days.
“I want to feel small before everything gets bigger,” she wrote in her journal, found later at their apartment in Gràcia. Joshua Tree, with its alien beauty and solitude, seemed perfect. So, in early October 2012, they flew to Los Angeles, rented a silver Jeep Cherokee, and drove east into the Mojave Desert. They checked…