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"He had turned twenty-one the last week in January" (page 7)
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"She'd been seduced by Ibrahim Nasar in the fullness of her adolescence." (page 9)
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"he seemed happy with his father until the latter died suddenly, three years before" (page 7)
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"Bayardo...had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding." (page 25)
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Chapter 2
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Bayardo buys the pretty house from the widower for Angela (page 35)
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"Angela Vicario, the beautiful girl who'd gotten married the day before" (page 21)
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"I reminded him that it was Monday," (page 8)
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"where they spent three years awaiting trial" (page 49)
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"Then she wrote him a feverish letter...she kept on without quarter for seventeen years" (page 94-95)
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"I had proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha as soon as she finished primary school, just as she herself would remind me fourteen years later when we got married." (page43-44)
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"Halfway through one August day...Bayardo San Román took a step forward...'Well,' he said, 'here I am.'" (page 95)
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"Plácida Linero, his mother, told me twenty-seven years later" (page 3)