Mångata. In Swedish, this is the reflection the moon makes as it traces a path across the water. Antonia used to have a game she played with Marcos. To find impossible words, words that define beautiful, untranslatable feelings, those requiring a whole paragraph in Spanish. When either one of them found a word like that, they offered it to the other as treasure. And at this very moment—thanks to a gust of wind and a break in the clouds—one of her favorites has just materialized in front of her eyes: a tremulous, broken silver line. Mångata. A sign from the universe outside, meaning whatever
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