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“Si queremos que nuestros mañanas sean distintos de nuestros ayeres, si deseamos que la prosperidad y el bienestar hagan de nuestro hogar su morada, deberíamos cuidar —con pulcritud y esmero— aquellos tesoros que se nos dieron. Aquello que, con dignidad, llamamos «nuestro».”

“We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. And then I open the door and go to the dining-room, where he is sitting waiting for me at a table, and I think how in that moment I have aged, and passed on, how I have advanced one step towards an unknown destiny. We smile, we choose our lunch, we speak of this and that, but - I say to myself-I am not she who left him five minutes ago. She has stayed behind. I am another woman, older, more mature…”