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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 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…
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A little girl of many worlds
For her, every book was but a window that opened to a new world , waiting to be explored From the heights, he encountered on his path, Magnifico carefully observed every single detail that made up his world and perfectly at ease in its midst. Meanwhile, Camila lived in her own world, and she enjoyed…