The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

NOTICE: REQUISITION OF ROOM 4, CONVENTILLO DE LA RIBERA. OCCUPANT: URRUTIA, LUPITA. STATUS: SICK. RENT: DUE. The cough came up like rust. Lupita Urrutia bent over the washbasin, her knuckles white against the cold iron rim. She was thirty-two, but her lungs had forgotten how to be thirty. Three weeks of fever had hollowed her out, leaving only a skin of flesh stretched over bone. She wiped her...

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