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- Sorry. I can sit here with you, to finish this beer?
- Yeah, right.
- My name is Alexander.
- Ah.
- Alejandro Barquero.
- Okay. I'm Stella.
- I was at the other end of the coffee. I do not know. I saw so alone.
- I like being alone.
- Always?
- No, not always. Some days. Do not you think that you suddenly feel the urge to take stock of yourself?
- Sometimes. But usually at night. My problem is I suffer from insomnia.
- I prefer to sleep at night.
- Me too. But I can not always.
- Bad conscience?
- No. Did I have aspect of an offender or a rapist?
- De rapist no.
- In criminal?
- Take one to know. Not ten years ago that we know, but five minutes.
- You're always so defensive?
- You have to watch.
- You come often to this coffee?
- Two or three times a week.
- You work around here?.
- If the interrogation will continue in this manner, claim the presence of my lawyer.
- In this wise? What vocabulary! I like to have a sense of humor.
- And you, what do you do?
- translate.
- From English?
- also in English. But mostly French and Italian. And I'm single in English.
- Got me confidence that I make you mine?
- I did not know that singleness was a secret. Rather thought he was a civil state.
- I'm not single. I have separated.
- And what?
- what if?
- How do you feel about the new state?
- not so new. A year ago I separated. Now I'm used, but at first it was tough.
- do not ask if you live alone, because you're going to stick to crowding.
- Why? I live alone, of course.
- your family?
- I is low. My mom lives in Brazil with my brother. My old man was in a heart attack. I have a sister married to a gringo, who lives in Los Angeles. And that's it.
- What time is it?
- The six-twenty.
- Wow. Had to be at six in the Center. But no matter. Total, no longer came. Or by taxi. What happens is that my watch is lazy. You see that mark five and ten? And I have not wasted your time. I enjoyed meeting you.
- Know? Have not talked much.
- Enough. And a relationship is built not only with words. They also talk about the eyes, right?
- Aha. And may I know you said my eyes?
- Reserved.
- I like the joke eh?
- I like to have fun.
- At the cost of this servant.
- You can tell how old are you?
- can not.
- represent twenty-three.
- Cold, cold.
- I have twenty-five.
- accounting for twenty-four and a half.
- This time I'll make you a question that requires an honest answer.
- Come.
- you like me?
- In what sense?
- Vertical. Horizontal your preference.
- Say yes. Although not why.
- I'll explain?
- No, please. I can not stand male vanity when breaks spontaneously.
- Do not you feel as if we had known for years?
- that question does not sound like Venezuelan soap opera?
- You answer me. You think or not you think?
- Years?. No. I feel as if we had known since twenty-eight minutes.
- Someone once said that radiates sympathy so strong that one you sick?
- Well, a boy once told me that my sympathy I got drunk.
- See? It is just like that. And notice that I have not even played a hand.
- Do not you dare.
- Do not give me permission?
- Of course not. Hardly allow my hand to touch yours.
- Barbarian.
- You have a soft skin. Interesting. We see that you were never working.
- And that scar on the wrist?
- Ah yes. With this detail, you know all of the young marchioness. Two years ago tried to kill myself.
- And what happened?
- I saved. Some neighbors. How well they did. I'm happy to keep alive and kicking.
- Mal de amores?
- No. Lack of love. Void of love.
- Drugs maybe?
- Not at all. Not even smoke. Most do not drink alcohol. You never wanted to commit suicide?
- I'm too asshole to make a decision so laborious.
- You told me you're single in English. But you have wife, partner, lover or girlfriend?
- No, my child. I have three and a half month sabbatical virginity.
- Then I'll make a confession that I hope you appreciate in all good faith.
- so be it.
- And in all innocence.
- I'm all ears.
- It may seem strange, but I have wanted to see you naked.
[Mario Benedetti]
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