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Rodolfo and Nelida.(Short story)

Rodolfo had known her when she was just a little bird, just another Juarez-child with a face like a lilypad and lips like a scuttle fish, whose parents brought her across the border, to New Mexico during the picking months, a little strawberry on life's vine. He was only two or three years older, a boy from the valley and a prodigy of misdemeanors and small theft, but he had hankered after her even then, watching her work, watching her drudge in dry fields, and slipping her the bits of scrap metal he had wound into a necklace that would, of course, have been death to wear. And then she had bloomed into the thing she was, a beauty among beauties and a tender little fig. There ...

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