One Hundred Years of Solitude

submission that confirmed the
generalized belief that she
was a poor devil, and the only
souvenir she kept of
Aureliano Segundo was a pair
of patent leather boots,
which, according to what he
himself had said, were the
ones he wanted to wear in his
coffin. She kept them
wrapped in cloth in the
bottom of a trunk and made
ready to feed on memories,
waiting without despair.