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Santiago's Lifespan
"He had turned twenty-one the last week in January" (page 7) -
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Ibrahim and Guzman Have Affair
"She'd been seduced by Ibrahim Nasar in the fullness of her adolescence." (page 9) -
Ibrahim Nasar dies
"he seemed happy with his father until the latter died suddenly, three years before" (page 7) -
Bayardo comes to Sucre
"Bayardo...had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding." (page 25) -
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Courtship of Angela by Bayardo
Chapter 2 -
Bayardo buys house
Bayardo buys the pretty house from the widower for Angela (page 35) -
Angela Vicarcio's Wedding with Bayardo
"Angela Vicario, the beautiful girl who'd gotten married the day before" (page 21) -
Santiago's Murder
"I reminded him that it was Monday," (page 8) -
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Twins in Jail
"where they spent three years awaiting trial" (page 49) -
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Angela writes letters to Bayardo
"Then she wrote him a feverish letter...she kept on without quarter for seventeen years" (page 94-95) -
Narrator marries Mercedes
"I had proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha as soon as she finished primary school, just as she herself would remind me fourteen years later when we got married." (page43-44) -
Bayardo comes back to Angela
"Halfway through one August day...Bayardo San Román took a step forward...'Well,' he said, 'here I am.'" (page 95) -
Narrator's POV
"Plácida Linero, his mother, told me twenty-seven years later" (page 3)