One Hundred Years of Solitude

sound, where she carried her
parents bones. The letter
addressed to José Arcadio
Buendía was written is very
warm terms by someone who
still loved him very much in
spite of time and distance,
and who felt obliged by a
basic humanitarian feeling to
do the charitable thing and
send him that poor
unsheltered orphan, who was
a second cousin of Úrsulas
and consequently also a