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Houses and where to place them
Looking back, he understood that his first love of his life was also, so much fun! “So Camila, which would you prefer: some place behind the orchard or in the pine tree’s clearing?” “Well to be honest, neither of them.” Magnifico was puzzled and he remained thoughtful for a few minutes. “Well then, where do you…
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The birthday boy’s farm house
Those days, bathed in the warm sunlight, beneath blue skies… have left to never return It was beneath a warm noon sun all the guests went into the house. They left the wagons and the horses beneath the shade, on the way to the cow’s shed. While everyone got comfortable, Magnifico,…
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The popular songs
And what of life, if it were for the music, for it to be properly enjoyed On the second uncovered wagon, and sitting next to each other, Magnífico and Camila were carrying on this lively conversation, totally engrossed in their own separate world. To their side and surrounding them, as well as…
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Flowers and celebrations
Some of his most enduring memories where marked by the most extraordinary simplicity of his life When Father Juan finally called them, and they crossed the park to the church for Mass; Magnífico was overwhelmed, as he saw the flowers, so carefully arranged, outside the church. One day later during that year, he…
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Games in the park
Like all the kids, it seemed that in the eternity of time’s passage, his birthday would never arrive They were in the shade of the trees, gathered in one of the walkways of the park, exactly in front of the stone church that gave the town its special charm. His mother had ordered a…
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And, if it was all merely but a dream?
If it were but a dream, whom do I have to thank for it all? Totally defeated by fatigue, derived from so much wandering about, he fell asleep again. In a manner that could be put forth, by some, as magical, he slept under the imposing influence of the deep roots of…