“For the reader, perhaps, this situation will be sadly familiar: witnessing, discovering in these lines, how in a matter of years, what was an eternal oath, had become something so fragile, so disposable, so insignificant.”

— José Baroja , book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

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