sunken eyelids and skin
spangled with mange, but she
was writing out numbers on
small pieces of paper to make
a raffle. Aureliano Segundo
was astonished, and he was
so dirty and so solemn that
Petra Cotes almost believed
that the one who had come to
see her was not the lover of
all her life but his twin
brother.
Youre crazy, he told her.