One Hundred Years of Solitude

through the kitchen he kissed
Rebeca on the forehead.

            Get those   bad thoughts    out

of your head, he told her.
Youre going to be happy.

            The friendship  with    Rebeca

opened up to Pilar Ternera
the doors of the house, closed
by Úrsula since the birth of
Arcadio. She would arrive at
any hour of the day, like a
flock of goats, and would
unleash her feverish energy in