Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.

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One is never truly alone, even when our only company is our thoughts, because what are thoughts if not the memory of interactions with others?

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The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.

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Words have life, memory, when you hear them you travel to the past.

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What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.

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She felt love: real Love. The kind of love that makes no distinction, that doesn’t separate, that is not contained within a body. She cried from so much love.

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Surely the heart is not a fitting place to house hatred. But where is its place? I don’t know. That is one of the universe’s Unknowns. It would seem that the God’s truly delight in messing things up, for in not having created a particular spot to house hatred, they have provoked eternal chaos. Hatred us forever hunting down a refuge, poking it’s nose where it shouldn’t, taking over sites reserved for others, invariably forcing out love.

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Era el producto de un trabajo artesanal que desgraciadamente estaba pasando de moda, junto con los vestidos largos, las cartas de amor y los valses.

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La necesidad es la madre de todos los inventos y todas las posturas.

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Those hands had rescued her from horror and she would never forget it.

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Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo.

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Ironing was an act of annihilation in which wrinkles would die and give way to order: something she required more than anything.

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I wonder how much time had passed between the moment God said “Let there be light” and the appearance of light? Sometimes, the mere difference of a single second between one event and another can be enough to turn our lives around one hundred and eighty degrees.

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But there was nothing more transparent to her than the fear of not being loved, the fear of being unseen, of being ignored.

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She loved to put her hands in the water and repeat her mantra: “Just for today. Just for today I will choose water over alcohol. Just for today I will allow water to cleanse me, to purify me.

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Prensar, destrozar y despellejar eran algunas de sus actividades favoritas.

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Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.

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Look ma’am, those narcos that mutilate, torture, and kill others are no longer a part of us. They’re no longer part of any family or community; they act against everyone. They are worth nothing. But when you bury a narco, you allow him to be a part of you again. He becomes dust, food, our brother once more. His body – dissolved in the earth – now sustains life again, instead of destroying it.

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Love is a verb. One demonstrates one’s love through one’s actions. And a person can only feel loved when someone else shows their love with kisses, hugs, caresses, and gifts. A lover will always promote the physical and emotional well-being of the person he loves.

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Lo malo de llorar cuando uno pica cebolla no es el simple hecho de llorar, sino que a veces uno empieza, como quien dice, se pica, y ya no puede parar.

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Do you hear how the sand sings?

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