Shkeputur nga "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept"
Friday, December 10, 1993
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Before I closed my eyes, I began to hear my mother's voice. She was telling a story she had often told me when I was a child, not realizing it was a story about me.
"A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other" my mother's voice was saying. "They decided to become engaged. And that's when presents are always exchanged.
"The boy was poor - his only worthwhile possession was a watch he'd inherited from his grandfather. Thinking about his sweetheart's lovely hair, he decided to sell the watch in order to buy her a silver barrette.
"The girl had no money herself to buy him a present. She went to the shop of the most successful merchant in the town and sold him her hair. With the money, she bought a gold watchband for her lover.
"When they met on the day of the engagement party, she gave him the wristband for a watch he sold, and he gave her the barrette for the hair she no longer had"
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