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Benjamín and I had
talked it over.
We don’t want
to go home.
The two of them
discussed it.
They didn’t ask
us why we didn’t
want to go
home.
You don’t? What do
you want to do?
I don’t know...
But we’d rather not go
back. Today at least.
I suppose they’d seen a lot of this world. So they
must’ve known that not all of it was beautiful.
OK. Here’s what we’ll do:
first we’ll go up and leave
the kit bags. Then I’ll come
down and, while Héctor keeps
the owner busy, we’ll sneak up
without being seen.
Benjamín and
I slept on
the floor.
The sailors
had made an
improvised
bed with
the
blankets
and left
us the
pillows.
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