One Hundred Years of Solitude

lamb. But she was mistaken.
She had lost Arcadio, not
when he had put on his
military uniform, but from the
beginning. She thought she
had raised him as a son, as
she had raised Rebeca, with
no privileges or
discrimination. Nevertheless,
Arcadio was a solitary and
frightened child during the
insomnia plague, in the midst
of Úrsulas utilitarian fervor,
during the delirium of José