Last dance   At other times, Bork would get sobbing calls from
her at odd hours. "She'd call me late at night, 4 a.m., drunk,
and say, 'Eddie, I miss you.' She was like crying drunk. I had
no idea what she'd gotten herself into, but she was very
unhappy," he recalls.  Says her friend Laura, "When she got sad,
she would say that at least her brother and sisters are getting
everything she didn't get."  About two months before her death,
Maria's car was stolen from in front of her apartment in the
middle of the day. After that, either Laura or her parents drove
her to work, and she caught rides home with friends.  Without
transportation, without a steady boyfriend, without any
prospects in her adopted country, Maria's life seemingly had
shrunk to a desperate core.  On the day she died, she made one
last grasp for a bit of happiness, an odd gesture from Maria to
herself. Recalls Laura: "I went to pick her up, but she was in
the beauty parlor. So I went by her house, and I saw a huge
flower arrangement. I asked he