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Así lo hicieron. Todo un día pasó<br />

apagándose; gemía. Tenían que estarla<br />

voltiando <strong>de</strong> un lado a otro. No podía<br />

estar boca arriba, por la petaca; ni boca<br />

abajo, por la barriga.<br />

En la noche se murió.<br />

Amaneció tendida <strong>de</strong> lado, en la cama<br />

que habían jalado al centro <strong>de</strong>l rancho.<br />

Estaba entre cuatro can<strong>de</strong>las. Las<br />

comadres <strong>de</strong>cían:<br />

—Pobre; tan güena quera; ¡ni se sentía<br />

la indizuela, <strong>de</strong> mansita!<br />

—¡Una santa! Si hasta, mirá, es<br />

meramente una cruz!<br />

Más que cruz, hacía una equis, con la<br />

línea <strong>de</strong> su cuerpo y la <strong>de</strong> las petacas.<br />

Le pusieron una coronita <strong>de</strong><br />

siemprevivas. Estaba como en un sueño<br />

profundo; y es que ella siempre estuvo<br />

un grado abajo <strong>de</strong> los suyos: cuando<br />

todos estaban riendo, ella sonreía;<br />

cuando todos sonreían, ella estaba<br />

seria; cuando todos estaban serios,<br />

ella lloraba; y ahora, que ellos estaban<br />

llorando, ella no tuvo más remedio que<br />

estar muerta.<br />

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So they did. She spent a full day<br />

flickering away. She moaned. They had<br />

to flip her from one si<strong>de</strong> to the other.<br />

She could not be facing up because of<br />

the hump; she couldn’t be facing down,<br />

because of her belly.<br />

That night she died.<br />

The dawn witnessed her laying on<br />

her si<strong>de</strong>, on the bed that they had<br />

moved to the middle of the shack. She<br />

was surroun<strong>de</strong>d by four candles. The<br />

godmothers commented:<br />

“Poor girl. She was so good. You couldn’t<br />

even tell she was around. So tame!”<br />

“A saint! Look at her, she is in<strong>de</strong>ed a<br />

cross!”<br />

More than a cross, the lines of her body<br />

and the hump ma<strong>de</strong> her resembled an<br />

X.<br />

They put a wreath of strawflowers on<br />

her. She seemed as if she were in a<br />

<strong>de</strong>ep sleep, and again, she was a <strong>de</strong>gree<br />

below her family: when everyone<br />

laughed, she smiled; when they smiled,<br />

she was serious; when everyone was<br />

serious, she cried; and now that they<br />

were crying, she had no other recourse<br />

but to be <strong>de</strong>ad.

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