He looked at her. I’d of thought maybe the disappointments in your own life might of made you more sympathetic to other people. You would have thought wrongly. I guess so. It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable. I guess it depends on the people. You think you know something of my life. An old woman whose past perhaps has left her bitter. Jealous of the happiness of others. It is an ordinary story. But it is not mine. I put forward your cause even in the teeth of the most outrageous tantrums on the part of Alejandra’s mother—whom mercifully you have never
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