One Hundred Years of Solitude

time, ever since that distant
day when Amaranta thought
he was still a child and
continued getting undressed
in front of him in the
bathroom as she had always
done, as she had been used to
doing ever since Pilar Ternera
had turned him over to her to
finish his upbringing. The
first time that he saw her the
only thing that drew his
attention was the deep
depression between her