Episode 14

The streets are thick and damp from the drizzle that surely fell in the early morning while we all slept. Fruit stores — apples, grapes, pears, and raisins — are packed with lush lines of people who have left everything to the last minute. I could have been one of those if my mother and grandmother hadn't done the shopping without me for our dinner. After going through everything and placing it on the stainless steel table in the middle of the kitchen, I realized that it was all there. From raw, unseasoned pork leg to potatoes and carrots for Russian salad. They bought about four bottles of Tempranillo red wine and a gallon of rum. If something is clear in our tiny family, it is that at Christmas they should have a few drinks and celebrate that we are together one more year.

The houses in Lace Praderas, They are huge elegant buildings, although some modernized and elevated as in search of the sky were converted into buildings with apartments for rent. The area where