Love’s ultimate test
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Chapter VII: About the trenches and the multiplying tables
Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, México
While Grandfather embellished the tale of that night, Grandmother would silently listen to him. She would listen quietly and smiling to herself. Memories that only she was aware of would race through her mind. Abruptly, she would commence to blush and get up immediately, abandoning the room.
Scarcely moments later, she would come back, both calm and perfectly composed, with a smile that has always reminded me of the prodigal cat who had just eaten a mouse.
“To be or not to be; Manuela or that delicious rum! That was not just the question, it was an existential dilemma… Well, surely you wouldn’t believe I even considered the issue. When I had realized what I had done, the drink was gone and the fire was out! So I can truly, honest to God say:
Never hath a woman seen greater proof of love, by her man!”
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