One Hundred Years of Solitude

children. Úrsula had taken in
Santa Sofía de la Piedad with
her older daughter and a pair
of twins, who had been born
five months after Arcadio had
been shot. Contrary to the
victims last wishes, she
baptized the girl with the
name of Remedios. Im sure
that was what Arcadio meant,
she alleged. We wont call her
Úrsula, because a person
suffers too much with that
name. The twins were named