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New resolutions
If you can’t lick them, then… go around them All that day long, Camila, was very thoughtful, pondering and analyzing different options. Finally, she decided, and quietly waited till it was supper time. That Saturday, like all other Saturdays, the family had an early dinner and would enjoy a quiet evening, together at the table.…
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A paper world
The first she learned about art, was… the art of defending herself It was a Saturday afternoon, Camila and her mom were sitting behind the house, in the shade of the banana and guadua bamboo trees. It was a nice, cozy spot, full of flowers in colourful pots. The day’s work had been done, and…
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The town’s readers
The kids would arrive to the store, looking for candies and ice cream; while Camila, would go in to look for a new book to read… Don Anastasio, the owner of the store, liked to share a morning cup of coffee with his friend, Gregorio, the owner of the pharmacy at the corner. They would…
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Looking for books
Leaning against her favourite tree, the little girl poured her heart out… with a pen in her hand Motivated by the child’s thirst for books, her teacher, Rafita, dedicated himself to gathering more books among his friends and contacts. Camila took advantage of every time she went to Santa Isabel. There was a store there. They…
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Chasing libraries
Camila, Camila Why do you pass your time away inside those books? So easy! See, Because I can, but aso, because I love to… How different, however, with Camila. That little girl surpassed all the rest of the kids that went through his school. What a surprise for her teacher, when he observed that Camila,…
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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 the orchard
Life would set the rhythms to which they danced Magnifico’s mother, also had an orchard and a small greenhouse at the back of their house. There, she grew all sorts of vegetables, different herbs and spices. Eventually all that would end up in the kitchen of the house, with its huge wood burning stove that they…
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The bean patch
Eat when hungry and sleep when you feel sleepy And, as if it didn’t seem, there were enough things to be done; they also kept a patch where they grew beans, next to the bananas, and the yucca. Spread among these throughout the plot, they had coffee plants. The coffee was roasted in the house, on the kitchen…
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The craft of waking
Rising earlier does not make the day begin before Magnifico would quietly think a small while, before he answered: “But I really do try! It’s just that my eyes won’t open earlier. But really, I try very hard and put all I have into it, but, somehow, I just don’t wake up any earlier”. His father listened to…
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