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the animals to enjoy.
The !;}ole eventually froze the day just before winter
vacation....... t day the children had on homemade ice
skates,�d. saws to cut holes in the fishing water. By
the end o£ inter there were so many holes that
children j:. re 1ce skating right into the freezing water all
the time and Adalberto still in red shorts and a ridiculous
trumpet would dive in a� er them to pull out their small
bodies that were anchor aterlogged skates.
The following y� � 1 ar nobody voted except the
people involved in their]�� igns, Alfonsin was elected
mayor of t · . His on!y contribution, which he
actualize before his term had begun, was to fix every
street in the city so as to assure his victory.
Fifty autumns later, i still walk by the covered hole
and watch the birds dive-b their ancestral memory.
Now my back muscles ha ned into wood, and i
remember how d my iends enjoye that year. i look
at the leafless tr at stand in a row d,o e sidewalk
the same way i l�oked at that empty hol;T first day.
Autumn and the wind have alrea allowed the leaves
of every tree, but today, the very ne, the one on the
corner before Corrientes is full of every possible color,
round like a cloud of reds, blues, greens and golds. i walk
faster and when i am al beneath it, it explodes into a
million frightened frag . s. Butterflies that had b
resting on a very vacant tree blow away into the sk
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