away. One week previously
he had returned home,
without any voice, unable to
breathe, and almost skin and
bones, with his wandering
trunks and his wastrels
accordion, to fulfill the
promise of dying beside his
wife. Petra Cotes helped him
pack his clothes and bade him
farewell without shedding a
tear, but she forgot to give
him the patent leather shoes
that he wanted to wear in his
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