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Nick Joaquin
When she told him she had two navels he believed her at once; she seemed so urgently, so desperately serious-and besides, what would be the point in telling a lie like that, he asked himself, while she asked him if she could help her, if he could arrange” something surgical,” an operation.
“But I’m only a horse-doctor,” he apologized: to which she retorted that, well, if he could fix up horses…And she cried that it was urgent: her whole life depended on it.
He inquired how old she was, and noting-while she replied that she was thirty-how her eyes turned cagey for the first time since she came into the room he wondered, putting on his spectacles, if she might be knocking off a few years, but could not tell, for the stylized face with the black hat pulled low over it recorded no time in years, only in hours…..
Copyright 2010
ISBN 978-971-569-015-7
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