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a fiesta of charms

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...Junipa...

...sanguine thoughts settled with the idea that a little panic

would be appreciated...the monotone voice would lull in a

fashion orchestrating dire thoughts on Sunday evening

suppers, long walks towards cold Churches, dust collected on

windowsills housing soiled underwear, bad literature and

perhaps an incompetently knitted sweater...

...the fatal she...

...on the morning of her award, that award I assumed would

mean so much to her... prize money and a year of expenses to

research anything in the anthropological world she desired, she

had intimated that something wasn’t right...throwing a banana

unpeeled at the clock on the wall whilst mentioning

Marxism...though I smiled at this, I soon became worried... later

that evening I started watching her through binoculars, where I

saw her speaking to herself in a roused manner, angrily

shouting words I couldn’t discern, until a few hours passed and

I reentered the flat...we ate dinner prepared a few days prior,

beef lasagne, salad with a bit of Camembert that she had

brought from her sisters place...a glass of red wine, as we sat

together but very much alone...she interrupts a long period of

silence I failed to contest with the idea that she felt she was

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