One Hundred Years of Solitude

the superimposed Periods of
mourning, and her
accumulated afflictions,
Úrsula resisted growing old.
Aided by Santa Sofía de la
Piedad, she gave a new drive
to her pastry business and in a
few years not only recovered
the fortune that her son had
spent in the war, but she once
more stuffed with pure gold
the gourds buried in the
bedroom. As long as God
gives me life, she would say,