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...she had the gift of making people laugh because her own heart was so full of joy.

One late evening, returning home from a quiet dinner with good friends, Esteban and Isabel realized - with some astonishment - that they had not only grown up together but were growing old together. The thought gave them great pleasure.

He could not promise permanence, he told her, but he promised her good faith. When she protested, shocked, he said: "Permanence cannot be promised, Isabel, for the future cannot be predicted. Those who do it lie, perhaps without knowing that they do. I do not want to lie." (The Warrior)

I do not know what made me think that a boy like Felipe would ever notice me. Perhaps it was the intensity of my own feelings. When we want something badly enough, do we not convince ourselves that it is meant for us? When we fall in love, do we not think it is inevitable that the other person must return the feeling?