Love in the Time of Cholera
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Dr Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant Cy sayest, but he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet, and for an instant he was suspended in air. And then he realised that he had died without communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone. That's seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday, Femina Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she heard Digna Pardo's horrified shriek on the shouting of the servants and then of the entire neighbourhood. She dropped the tasting spoon and tried her best to run despite the invincible weight of her age, screaming like a mad woman without knowing yet what had happened under the mango leaves on her heart, jumped inside her ribs when she saw her man lying on his back in the mud, dead to this life but still resisting deaths. Final blow for one last minute so that she would have time to come to him. He recognised her despite Thea parole through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow, a dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life. And he managed to say to her with his last breath, Only God knows how much I loved you.