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A reading machine
At night, she would read with the light of a small candle; sometimes, the candle would burn out or it could happen the other way around Camila had her own special way of interpreting the world. As a child, and thanks to the influence of her teacher, Rafita, the little girl acquired and developed an amazing passion…
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On the way to school
And so the child merrily passed the hours away, as she skipped from word to word and from book to book Half an hour later, after finally leaving her house, she would meet up with Magnifico, who was always punctually waiting for her in the pine tree clearing. Together, they would walk an additional hour…
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In hot lands
The heat has precisely reached an extreme point; to the moment which this anti-climate becomes an absolute, or rather, it turns into a matter that could well be said as: the truly unbearable and totally intolerable. Not even this morning, as I hopped on the plane at Cochabamba City’s airport, did I run into this…
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With one eye on the job
The child had visited as many worlds as the books she had read, and those were many… Camila’s parents differed enormously from Magnifico’s folks, for they were incredibly strict and very conservative in their way of thinking. At four o’clock in the morning, while it was still pitch dark outside, the child could be found…