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S3E1 | A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda)

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Andres and the Little Widow

We do not know how Andres and the little widow met, but the rumor is that it happened through a mutual relation from the capital. On their first date, the little widow wore a silk slip dress, hand embroidered with small, delicate birds. The next day, he delivered to her a bouquet of radiant, limp-necked sunflowers. She arranged them in a giant vase by the window in her sewing room. He could be heard in the small hours of the morning, serenading her on his guitar. According to Gladys, who took to pressing a glass against the wall she shared with the little widow, it wasn't half bad. Lucy told us

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