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12. She had been brought from Peru
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We have not gone to the moon; we stayed inside the closet because it held so many things from the past from grandmothers and grandfathers who left their traces behind, like hats, traces like dried violets, doll hair, and other things that sometimes amuse us. Next to those dreams, space is a hungry fly. —— 10 —— 4 For more than twenty-five years, my brother Luis has been looking at the sole of his shoe. It’s a nice new sole, because before those twenty-five years, he had only walked one block. What he picked up on that journey— I mean the residue that remained stuck on the shoe—has been enough to meditate on during that interval. I have not reached the floor yet: since I was born I’ve been ready to descend, but the action of leaving the womb for the floor has taken a long time for me. —— 11 —— 5 ...