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<div align="justify">It was early 1995, and I was recovering from that big car accident me and Gaby had had, which had left me with a broken hip. During the first two months at home, I only remember getting out of bed to attend the wedding of two very good friends of mine. It was a long and painful trip, but it was worth it, even though it was a miracle we didn’t had another accident on our way back (and it was almost the same scenario, a car coming towards us, that veers off the road and starts to jump around against the median, missing us by little).</div>
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<div align="justify">While I was vegetating in bed, my only companies were TV (…) and my nephew Manuel. He lived in the back part of our house along with his family (he was the son of one of Gaby’s brothers), and since both units were connected through an internal patio, the door was always open. Enough temptation for Manu, who would come to visit me everyday, crawling first, then finally walking.</div>
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<div align="justify">I would pick him up and put him in my orthopaedic bed and then watch TV all afternoon. He would take a couple of short naps, then watch TV for another while, and whenever he felt like leaving, he would. After a few days, his mother wouldn’t even bother to look for him. The moment Manu disappeared from her sight, she knew he would be going to be with his uncle…</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">This ‘bromance’ ended on May 19th, 1995. That was the day 4-days-old Santi came home from the hospital. Manu looked at him, then at me and you would swear I vanished in front of his very eyes, because from that moment on, it’s like I wasn’t there anymore. Once Santi came to <em>take over his spot</em>, the guy thought ‘well, that’s it, I have no more use for you’ and stopped paying attention to me altogether.</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">And he never came to visit me again, unless he was following his older siblings. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
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<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">Me and Manuel – March 1995</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Manuel y yo – Marzo 1995</font></em></div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="center"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11" /></div>
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<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30" /><b><span style="color:red;">1995 –&#160; Manuel (11 meses)</span></b></div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">A principios de 1995, yo estaba recuperándome del accidente de auto que habíamos tenido con Gaby y que había resultado en la rotura de mi cadera. Durante los primeros dos meses, sólo recuerdo haberme bajado de la cama un día que fuimos al casamiento de unos amigos. Fue un viaje muy largo y penoso, pero valió la pena, aunque a la vuelta no volvimos a chocar por milagro (y fue casi la misma situación, un auto viniendo del otro lado que se despistó y comenzó a dar tumbos y a punto estuvo de cruzarse en nuestro camino).</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">Mientras vegetaba en la cama, mis únicas compañías diarias eran la televisión (…) y mi sobrino Manuel. El y su familia (el hermano de Gaby) vivían en la parte de atrás de mi casa, y como ambas unidades se comunicaban por un patio interno, la puerta permanecía abierta siempre. Tentación suficiente para Manu, que se venía todos los días a visitarme, gateando al principio, caminando luego.</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">Yo lo subía a mi cama ortopédica y nos pasábamos la tarde juntos mirando televisión. El se dormía a ratos, miraba otros ratos y cuando quería se bajaba y se iba. Pasado un tiempo su madre ni se gastaba en buscarlo. En cuanto lo perdía de vista sabía que Manu estaba con su tío…</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">El idilio duró exactamente hasta el día 19 de Mayo de 1995. Ese día llegó Santiago a casa, cuatro días luego de haber nacido. Manu lo vio, mi miró a mí y uno juraría que yo me volví invisible delante de sus ojos, porque el tipo no me ‘registró’ más. Una vez que llegó Santi a <em>ocupar su lugar</em>, el tipo es como que hubiera dicho ‘si te he visto, no me acuerdo’.</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">Y no me volvió a visitar, a menos que viniera de colita de sus hermanos mayores. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">With Santi – June 1995</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Con Santi – Junio 1995</font></em></div>
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		<title>&gt;Silly Monkey Stories #82 – The invisible man</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62; &#160; (Versión en español más abajo)&#160; &#160; &#160;1995 – Manuel (11 months) It was early 1995, and I was recovering from that big car accident me and Gaby had had, which had left me with a broken hip. During the first two months at home, I only remember getting out of bed to attend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lfwaterloo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3255295&amp;post=10562&amp;subd=lfwaterloo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://3garnetsn2sapphires.blogspot.com/search/label/Silly%20Monkey%20Stories"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/LFWaterloo/SGmzTje_S6I/AAAAAAAADDQ/_lEtiShJMYU/SMStory1.jpeg" /></a></div>
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<div align="center"><em><strong>(Versión en español más abajo)</strong></em>&#160;</div>
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<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30" />&#160;<b><span style="color:red;">1995 – Manuel (11 months)</span></b></div>
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<div align="justify">It was early 1995, and I was recovering from that big car accident me and Gaby had had, which had left me with a broken hip. During the first two months at home, I only remember getting out of bed to attend the wedding of two very good friends of mine. It was a long and painful trip, but it was worth it, even though it was a miracle we didn’t had another accident on our way back (and it was almost the same scenario, a car coming towards us, that veers off the road and starts to jump around against the median, missing us by little).</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">While I was vegetating in bed, my only companies were TV (…) and my nephew Manuel. He lived in the back part of our house along with his family (he was the son of one of Gaby’s brothers), and since both units were connected through an internal patio, the door was always open. Enough temptation for Manu, who would come to visit me everyday, crawling first, then finally walking.</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">I would pick him up and put him in my orthopaedic bed and then watch TV all afternoon. He would take a couple of short naps, then watch TV for another while, and whenever he felt like leaving, he would. After a few days, his mother wouldn’t even bother to look for him. The moment Manu disappeared from her sight, she knew he would be going to be with his uncle…</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">This ‘bromance’ ended on May 19th, 1995. That was the day 4-days-old Santi came home from the hospital. Manu looked at him, then at me and you would swear I vanished in front of his very eyes, because from that moment on, it’s like I wasn’t there anymore. Once Santi came to <em>take over his spot</em>, the guy thought ‘well, that’s it, I have no more use for you’ and stopped paying attention to me altogether.</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">And he never came to visit me again, unless he was following his older siblings. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1UwV8nxduI/AAAAAAAAKmA/qNnAG0ugm3s/s1600-h/image%5B4%5D.png"><img title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1UwaUKZGGI/AAAAAAAAKmE/jNeoDvLX6bM/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="444" height="650" /></a></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">Me and Manuel – March 1995</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Manuel y yo – Marzo 1995</font></em></div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="center"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11" /></div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30" /><b><span style="color:red;">1995 –&#160; Manuel (11 meses)</span></b></div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">A principios de 1995, yo estaba recuperándome del accidente de auto que habíamos tenido con Gaby y que había resultado en la rotura de mi cadera. Durante los primeros dos meses, sólo recuerdo haberme bajado de la cama un día que fuimos al casamiento de unos amigos. Fue un viaje muy largo y penoso, pero valió la pena, aunque a la vuelta no volvimos a chocar por milagro (y fue casi la misma situación, un auto viniendo del otro lado que se despistó y comenzó a dar tumbos y a punto estuvo de cruzarse en nuestro camino).</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">Mientras vegetaba en la cama, mis únicas compañías diarias eran la televisión (…) y mi sobrino Manuel. El y su familia (el hermano de Gaby) vivían en la parte de atrás de mi casa, y como ambas unidades se comunicaban por un patio interno, la puerta permanecía abierta siempre. Tentación suficiente para Manu, que se venía todos los días a visitarme, gateando al principio, caminando luego.</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">Yo lo subía a mi cama ortopédica y nos pasábamos la tarde juntos mirando televisión. El se dormía a ratos, miraba otros ratos y cuando quería se bajaba y se iba. Pasado un tiempo su madre ni se gastaba en buscarlo. En cuanto lo perdía de vista sabía que Manu estaba con su tío…</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">El idilio duró exactamente hasta el día 19 de Mayo de 1995. Ese día llegó Santiago a casa, cuatro días luego de haber nacido. Manu lo vio, mi miró a mí y uno juraría que yo me volví invisible delante de sus ojos, porque el tipo no me ‘registró’ más. Una vez que llegó Santi a <em>ocupar su lugar</em>, el tipo es como que hubiera dicho ‘si te he visto, no me acuerdo’.</div>
<div align="justify">&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">Y no me volvió a visitar, a menos que viniera de colita de sus hermanos mayores. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">With Santi – June 1995</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Con Santi – Junio 1995</font></em></div>
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		<title>&gt;Silly Monkey Stories #82 – The invisible man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62; &#160; (Versión en español más abajo)&#160; &#160; &#160;1995 – Manuel (11 months) It was early 1995, and I was recovering from that big car accident me and Gaby had had, which had left me with a broken hip. During the first two months at home, I only remember getting out of bed to attend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lfwaterloo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3255295&amp;post=8838&amp;subd=lfwaterloo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div align="center"><em><strong>(Versión en español más abajo)</strong></em>&#160;</div>
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<div align="justify">It was early 1995, and I was recovering from that big car accident me and Gaby had had, which had left me with a broken hip. During the first two months at home, I only remember getting out of bed to attend the wedding of two very good friends of mine. It was a long and painful trip, but it was worth it, even though it was a miracle we didn’t had another accident on our way back (and it was almost the same scenario, a car coming towards us, that veers off the road and starts to jump around against the median, missing us by little).</div>
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<div align="justify">While I was vegetating in bed, my only companies were TV (…) and my nephew Manuel. He lived in the back part of our house along with his family (he was the son of one of Gaby’s brothers), and since both units were connected through an internal patio, the door was always open. Enough temptation for Manu, who would come to visit me everyday, crawling first, then finally walking.</div>
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<div align="justify">I would pick him up and put him in my orthopaedic bed and then watch TV all afternoon. He would take a couple of short naps, then watch TV for another while, and whenever he felt like leaving, he would. After a few days, his mother wouldn’t even bother to look for him. The moment Manu disappeared from her sight, she knew he would be going to be with his uncle…</div>
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<div align="justify">This ‘bromance’ ended on May 19th, 1995. That was the day 4-days-old Santi came home from the hospital. Manu looked at him, then at me and you would swear I vanished in front of his very eyes, because from that moment on, it’s like I wasn’t there anymore. Once Santi came to <em>take over his spot</em>, the guy thought ‘well, that’s it, I have no more use for you’ and stopped paying attention to me altogether.</div>
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<div align="justify">And he never came to visit me again, unless he was following his older siblings. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </div>
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<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">Me and Manuel – March 1995</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Manuel y yo – Marzo 1995</font></em></div>
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<div align="justify">A principios de 1995, yo estaba recuperándome del accidente de auto que habíamos tenido con Gaby y que había resultado en la rotura de mi cadera. Durante los primeros dos meses, sólo recuerdo haberme bajado de la cama un día que fuimos al casamiento de unos amigos. Fue un viaje muy largo y penoso, pero valió la pena, aunque a la vuelta no volvimos a chocar por milagro (y fue casi la misma situación, un auto viniendo del otro lado que se despistó y comenzó a dar tumbos y a punto estuvo de cruzarse en nuestro camino).</div>
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<div align="justify">Mientras vegetaba en la cama, mis únicas compañías diarias eran la televisión (…) y mi sobrino Manuel. El y su familia (el hermano de Gaby) vivían en la parte de atrás de mi casa, y como ambas unidades se comunicaban por un patio interno, la puerta permanecía abierta siempre. Tentación suficiente para Manu, que se venía todos los días a visitarme, gateando al principio, caminando luego.</div>
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<div align="justify">Yo lo subía a mi cama ortopédica y nos pasábamos la tarde juntos mirando televisión. El se dormía a ratos, miraba otros ratos y cuando quería se bajaba y se iba. Pasado un tiempo su madre ni se gastaba en buscarlo. En cuanto lo perdía de vista sabía que Manu estaba con su tío…</div>
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<div align="justify">El idilio duró exactamente hasta el día 19 de Mayo de 1995. Ese día llegó Santiago a casa, cuatro días luego de haber nacido. Manu lo vio, mi miró a mí y uno juraría que yo me volví invisible delante de sus ojos, porque el tipo no me ‘registró’ más. Una vez que llegó Santi a <em>ocupar su lugar</em>, el tipo es como que hubiera dicho ‘si te he visto, no me acuerdo’.</div>
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<div align="justify">Y no me volvió a visitar, a menos que viniera de colita de sus hermanos mayores. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">With Santi – June 1995</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Con Santi – Junio 1995</font></em></div>
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		<title>The Hurricane</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grandfather Pepe loved going out, that was no secret. He would leave and who knows when he was coming back&#8230; the oddity about this is that my grandmother was exactly the opposite, she loved staying in playing cards or watching TV. &#160; During the summer, Pepe&#8217;s routine consisted in taking the bus and going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lfwaterloo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3255295&amp;post=6575&amp;subd=lfwaterloo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30" />My grandfather Pepe loved going out, that was no secret. He would leave and who knows when he was coming back&#8230; the oddity about this is that my grandmother was exactly the opposite, she loved staying in playing cards or watching TV.</div>
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<div align="justify">During the summer, Pepe&#8217;s routine consisted in taking the bus and going to the beach at around 9 AM, coming back right after dusk. My grandmother, in the meantime, would stay home because according to her &#8216;sand in Necochea has a lot of iodine and it was bad for her&#8217;&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Fighting was something they would definitely do together (though it wasn&#8217;t anything bad, just arguing and complaining), so it wasn&#8217;t that big of a surprise to see my grandfather heading out all the time&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="justify">But there was something Pepe did that was very mysterious and had all of his grandchildren intrigued. Every Monday evening, at around 8 PM, Pepe would say &#8216;I&#8217;m going over to Fernando&#8217;s place&#8217; and he would disappear until the wee hours of the night. If we just happened to be still up by the time he came back (let&#8217;s say it was summer and my grandmother had &#8216;kidnapped&#8217; us so we would play cards with her), we would see him come back, &#8216;visibly affected&#8217; after so many hours of partying&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ))</div>
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<div align="justify">Fernando was Fernando Moreira, a very old friend of Pepe, who lived just half a block away. A loner, we never knew whether he was single or a widower; he had won a lot of money in the lottery and had decided to spend it the best way he could: by organizing fantastic dinners with his friends every week. There were man from all ages and precedence that would meet at his place every Monday night, eating and drinking to the point of exhaustion. </div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe -of course- attended those meetings with religious punctuality. It was known that nobody could compete with him when it was about eating and drinking (my brother-in-law Daniel had called him -with all justice- &#8216;The Hurricane&#8217;, because there would be nothing left after he hit the table), but we suspected that there was something else behind such a commitment. Very intrigued, all the grandchildren (especially mi brother Martín and I) started to dig deeper into this, until one day the unexpected happened: Pepe invited to go with him!</div>
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<div align="justify">We arrived to the place like who is going to participate of a social experiment. We almost showed up with a notepad and a pencil! We found, as we were expecting, lots of people (all male) from different places, ages and social classes, some of our own age or people we actually knew personally. Fernando&#8217;s house, very humble and of a traditional Argentine style, had a semi-open corridor (which we called &#8216;gallery&#8217;) that would end in the kitchen. To the sides, you&#8217;d find doors communicating to the different rooms in the house. The living room/dining room featured a very long table, around which everybody started to sit.</div>
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<div align="justify">The menu was very simple, and I though, recurring: after a &#8216;picada&#8217; (a cheese table with ham, salami, etc), we had beef empanadas and then a traditionally Argentine barbecue, with salads and/or fries. Everything was prepared and served in a very casual, rudimentary way, &#8216;macho style&#8217;. After all, nobody was there to judge the way food was being presented, that was absolutely secondary. There was a lot of food, but also enough provisions to be able to &#8216;lubricate&#8217; it. <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I believe -Martín, please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong- that Fernando&#8217;s house was communicated to his next door neighbour&#8217;s, who was Carlos Cela, that man <a href="http://lfwaterloo.blogspot.com/2009/11/there-are-places-i-remember-01.html">I had portrayed</a> not long ago, and who owns that fantastic grocery store that seems to be stopped in time. The bottles of wine were going down at supersonic speed, and then flying over our heads to land on the floor making a big noise. Incredibly, they wouldn&#8217;t break on contact, but instead bounce on a very old wooden floor that seemed to absorb the impact. Every hour or so, Carlos would rush back to his store to get more wine&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Long story short: people ate and drank as if it were the last time. Before and after, we played cards -the traditional games of &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco">truco</a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tute">tute</a>&#8216;- and tell lots of jokes and stories that I can&#8217;t hardly repeat here (we would call them &#8216;green jokes&#8217;). It was as simple as that, but at the same time it was an exceptional way for such a large and diverse group of people to bond.</div>
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<div align="justify">Me and Martín, who had attended the party very intrigued, but at the same time full of that teenage arrogance that made us say &#8216;we&#8217;re going to eat everything&#8217;, ended practically laying on the floor, our bellies swollen and almost unable to move because of how much we had eaten, and exhausted after having laughed so hard&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe was right by our side, still eating. As I said, you could not compete with this man&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30" />Que a mi abuelo Pepe le gustaba salir no era secreto para nadie. El tipo agarraba la calle y vaya a saber cuándo volvía&#8230; lo curioso del caso es que mi abuela era exactamente lo opuesto, no había cosa que le gustara más que quedarse en casa jugando a las cartas o mirando televisión.</div>
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<div align="justify">En el verano, Pepe se tomaba el bus y se iba a la playa a eso de las 9 de la mañana, y muchas veces no volvía hasta bien entrada la noche. Mi abuela, mientras tanto, se quedaba en casa porque según ella, &#8216;la arena de Necochea tenía mucho yodo y a ella le hacía mal&#8217;&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pelearse era también un pasatiempo que ambos cultivaban (aunque jamás pasaba de un par de rezongos) así que no nos extrañaba tanto que el abuelo se rajara todo el tiempo&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="justify">Pero había algo Pepe hacía que llamaba poderosamente la atención de todos los nietos. Los lunes a la tardecita, casi entrando la noche, Pepe decía &#8216;me voy a lo de Fernando&#8217; y desaparecía hasta bien entrada la madrugada. Si por casualidad llegábamos a estar levantados cuando volvía (por ejemplo, era verano y la abuela nos había &#8216;mantenido cautivos&#8217; para jugar a las cartas), lo veíamos volver a Pepe, y venía &#8216;visiblemente afectado&#8217; después de la parranda&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ))</div>
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<div align="justify">Fernando era Fernando Moreira, un viejo amigo del abuelo que vivía a media cuadra de su casa. Un hombre solo, del que nunca supe si era soltero o viudo, había ganado una fortuna en la lotería y había decidido disfrutarla de la mejor manera posible: organizando pantagruélicas cenas con sus amigos. Hombres de todas las edades y extracciones se citaban en su casa todos los lunes por la noche y le daban &#8216;al diente&#8217; y &#8216;al chupi&#8217; hasta más no poder. Como diríamos en Argentina, &#8216;se tomaban hasta el agua de los floreros&#8217;.</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe respetaba estos encuentros con puntualidad religiosa. Sabido era que mi abuelo no tenía par a la hora de comer y tomar (mi cuñado Daniel lo había bautizado con justicia &#8216;El huracán&#8217; porque por donde pasaba él no quedaba nada), pero nosotros suponíamos que había algo más detrás de tanta fidelidad. Intrigadísimos, los nietos (sobre todo mi hermano Martín y yo) comenzamos a interiorizarnos más sobre el tema, hasta que un día sucedió lo inesperado: Pepe nos invitó a ambos a ir con él</div>
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<div align="justify">Acudimos a la cita como quien va a presenciar un experimento social. Poco faltó para que lleváramos un anotador y un lápiz para tomar nota! Nos encontramos, como imaginábamos, con decenas de personas (todos hombres) de distintas procedencias, edades y clases sociales, algunos hasta contemporáneos nuestros o gente que conocíamos personalmente. La casa de Fernando, muy sencilla y de un estilo muy tradicional en Argentina, tenía un corredor semi-abierto (que nosotros llamamos &#8216;galería&#8217;) que desembocaba en la cocina. A los costados, una hilera de puertas comunicaba con las distintas habitaciones. El living-comedor contaba con una larguísima mesa, alrededor de la cual se fueron sentando los parroquianos.</div>
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<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">One of the Monday night parties – Sitting, with a red sweater, Pepe.</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">To his right, Fernando; standing, with a ‘smiley’ shirt, Martín</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Una de las ‘partuzas’ de los lunes – Sentado, con sweater rojo, Pepe.</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">A su derecha, Fernando; parado con una remera con un ‘smiley’, Martín</font></em></div>
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<div align="justify">El menú era sencillo, y se me antoja, recurrente: luego de una &#8216;picada&#8217; (quesos, jamón, salame, etc), hubo empanadas de carne como entrada y después asado con ensaladas y papas. Todo estaba preparado y servido muy rudamente, &#8216;a lo macho&#8217;. Después de todo, nadie estaba allí para juzgar la presentación de la comida, porque era algo completamente secundario. Así como había mucha comida, también había abundantes provisiones como para &#8216;regarla&#8217;. Creo -que me corrija mi hermano- que la casa de Fernando se comunicaba con la de Carlos Cela, aquel hombre <a href="http://lfwaterloo.blogspot.com/2009/11/there-are-places-i-remember-01.html">que retraté</a> no hace mucho y que tiene un maravilloso mercado que parece detenido en el tiempo. Las botellas de vino bajaban a velocidad supersónica y luego &#8216;volaban&#8217; por encima de nuestras cabezas para caer haciendo un gran estrépito en el piso de madera. Increíblemente, no se rompían sino que parecían rebotar en un piso de madera que de tan vieja amortiguaba el impacto. Cada tanto, Carlos salía rumbo a su mercado a buscar más provisiones&#8230;.</div>
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<div align="justify">Haré la historia corta: se comió y bebió de manera descomunal. Antes y después, la velada fue matizada por juegos de cartas -los tradicionales juegos de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco">truco</a> y <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tute">tute</a>- y por una gran cantidad de cuentos y chistes que difícilmente pueda repetir (&#8216;chistes verdes&#8217;, como decimos nosotros). Todo era tan simple como eso, pero a la vez capaz de unir a gente tan distinta de manera tan profunda.</div>
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<div align="justify">Martín y yo, que habíamos ido con toda la intriga del mundo pero también, para qué negarlo, con toda la soberbia adolescente de decir &#8216;nos vamos a comer todo&#8217;, terminamos prácticamente tirados en el suelo, con la barriga hinchada y sin poder movernos de tanto que habíamos comido y cansados de tanto que nos habíamos reído&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe, a nuestro lado, seguía comiendo. Con este hombre no se podía competir&#8230;</div>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62; My grandfather Pepe loved going out, that was no secret. He would leave and who knows when he was coming back&#8230; the oddity about this is that my grandmother was exactly the opposite, she loved staying in playing cards or watching TV. &#160; During the summer, Pepe&#8217;s routine consisted in taking the bus and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lfwaterloo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3255295&amp;post=10561&amp;subd=lfwaterloo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30" />My grandfather Pepe loved going out, that was no secret. He would leave and who knows when he was coming back&#8230; the oddity about this is that my grandmother was exactly the opposite, she loved staying in playing cards or watching TV.</div>
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<div align="justify">During the summer, Pepe&#8217;s routine consisted in taking the bus and going to the beach at around 9 AM, coming back right after dusk. My grandmother, in the meantime, would stay home because according to her &#8216;sand in Necochea has a lot of iodine and it was bad for her&#8217;&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Fighting was something they would definitely do together (though it wasn&#8217;t anything bad, just arguing and complaining), so it wasn&#8217;t that big of a surprise to see my grandfather heading out all the time&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="justify">But there was something Pepe did that was very mysterious and had all of his grandchildren intrigued. Every Monday evening, at around 8 PM, Pepe would say &#8216;I&#8217;m going over to Fernando&#8217;s place&#8217; and he would disappear until the wee hours of the night. If we just happened to be still up by the time he came back (let&#8217;s say it was summer and my grandmother had &#8216;kidnapped&#8217; us so we would play cards with her), we would see him come back, &#8216;visibly affected&#8217; after so many hours of partying&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ))</div>
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<div align="justify">Fernando was Fernando Moreira, a very old friend of Pepe, who lived just half a block away. A loner, we never knew whether he was single or a widower; he had won a lot of money in the lottery and had decided to spend it the best way he could: by organizing fantastic dinners with his friends every week. There were man from all ages and precedence that would meet at his place every Monday night, eating and drinking to the point of exhaustion. </div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe -of course- attended those meetings with religious punctuality. It was known that nobody could compete with him when it was about eating and drinking (my brother-in-law Daniel had called him -with all justice- &#8216;The Hurricane&#8217;, because there would be nothing left after he hit the table), but we suspected that there was something else behind such a commitment. Very intrigued, all the grandchildren (especially mi brother Martín and I) started to dig deeper into this, until one day the unexpected happened: Pepe invited to go with him!</div>
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<div align="justify">We arrived to the place like who is going to participate of a social experiment. We almost showed up with a notepad and a pencil! We found, as we were expecting, lots of people (all male) from different places, ages and social classes, some of our own age or people we actually knew personally. Fernando&#8217;s house, very humble and of a traditional Argentine style, had a semi-open corridor (which we called &#8216;gallery&#8217;) that would end in the kitchen. To the sides, you&#8217;d find doors communicating to the different rooms in the house. The living room/dining room featured a very long table, around which everybody started to sit.</div>
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<div align="justify">The menu was very simple, and I though, recurring: after a &#8216;picada&#8217; (a cheese table with ham, salami, etc), we had beef empanadas and then a traditionally Argentine barbecue, with salads and/or fries. Everything was prepared and served in a very casual, rudimentary way, &#8216;macho style&#8217;. After all, nobody was there to judge the way food was being presented, that was absolutely secondary. There was a lot of food, but also enough provisions to be able to &#8216;lubricate&#8217; it. <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I believe -Martín, please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong- that Fernando&#8217;s house was communicated to his next door neighbour&#8217;s, who was Carlos Cela, that man <a href="http://lfwaterloo.blogspot.com/2009/11/there-are-places-i-remember-01.html">I had portrayed</a> not long ago, and who owns that fantastic grocery store that seems to be stopped in time. The bottles of wine were going down at supersonic speed, and then flying over our heads to land on the floor making a big noise. Incredibly, they wouldn&#8217;t break on contact, but instead bounce on a very old wooden floor that seemed to absorb the impact. Every hour or so, Carlos would rush back to his store to get more wine&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Long story short: people ate and drank as if it were the last time. Before and after, we played cards -the traditional games of &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco">truco</a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tute">tute</a>&#8216;- and tell lots of jokes and stories that I can&#8217;t hardly repeat here (we would call them &#8216;green jokes&#8217;). It was as simple as that, but at the same time it was an exceptional way for such a large and diverse group of people to bond.</div>
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<div align="justify">Me and Martín, who had attended the party very intrigued, but at the same time full of that teenage arrogance that made us say &#8216;we&#8217;re going to eat everything&#8217;, ended practically laying on the floor, our bellies swollen and almost unable to move because of how much we had eaten, and exhausted after having laughed so hard&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe was right by our side, still eating. As I said, you could not compete with this man&#8230;</div>
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<div align="center"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11" /></div>
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<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30" />Que a mi abuelo Pepe le gustaba salir no era secreto para nadie. El tipo agarraba la calle y vaya a saber cuándo volvía&#8230; lo curioso del caso es que mi abuela era exactamente lo opuesto, no había cosa que le gustara más que quedarse en casa jugando a las cartas o mirando televisión.</div>
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<div align="justify">En el verano, Pepe se tomaba el bus y se iba a la playa a eso de las 9 de la mañana, y muchas veces no volvía hasta bien entrada la noche. Mi abuela, mientras tanto, se quedaba en casa porque según ella, &#8216;la arena de Necochea tenía mucho yodo y a ella le hacía mal&#8217;&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pelearse era también un pasatiempo que ambos cultivaban (aunque jamás pasaba de un par de rezongos) así que no nos extrañaba tanto que el abuelo se rajara todo el tiempo&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="justify">Pero había algo Pepe hacía que llamaba poderosamente la atención de todos los nietos. Los lunes a la tardecita, casi entrando la noche, Pepe decía &#8216;me voy a lo de Fernando&#8217; y desaparecía hasta bien entrada la madrugada. Si por casualidad llegábamos a estar levantados cuando volvía (por ejemplo, era verano y la abuela nos había &#8216;mantenido cautivos&#8217; para jugar a las cartas), lo veíamos volver a Pepe, y venía &#8216;visiblemente afectado&#8217; después de la parranda&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ))</div>
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<div align="justify">Fernando era Fernando Moreira, un viejo amigo del abuelo que vivía a media cuadra de su casa. Un hombre solo, del que nunca supe si era soltero o viudo, había ganado una fortuna en la lotería y había decidido disfrutarla de la mejor manera posible: organizando pantagruélicas cenas con sus amigos. Hombres de todas las edades y extracciones se citaban en su casa todos los lunes por la noche y le daban &#8216;al diente&#8217; y &#8216;al chupi&#8217; hasta más no poder. Como diríamos en Argentina, &#8216;se tomaban hasta el agua de los floreros&#8217;.</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe respetaba estos encuentros con puntualidad religiosa. Sabido era que mi abuelo no tenía par a la hora de comer y tomar (mi cuñado Daniel lo había bautizado con justicia &#8216;El huracán&#8217; porque por donde pasaba él no quedaba nada), pero nosotros suponíamos que había algo más detrás de tanta fidelidad. Intrigadísimos, los nietos (sobre todo mi hermano Martín y yo) comenzamos a interiorizarnos más sobre el tema, hasta que un día sucedió lo inesperado: Pepe nos invitó a ambos a ir con él</div>
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<div align="justify">Acudimos a la cita como quien va a presenciar un experimento social. Poco faltó para que lleváramos un anotador y un lápiz para tomar nota! Nos encontramos, como imaginábamos, con decenas de personas (todos hombres) de distintas procedencias, edades y clases sociales, algunos hasta contemporáneos nuestros o gente que conocíamos personalmente. La casa de Fernando, muy sencilla y de un estilo muy tradicional en Argentina, tenía un corredor semi-abierto (que nosotros llamamos &#8216;galería&#8217;) que desembocaba en la cocina. A los costados, una hilera de puertas comunicaba con las distintas habitaciones. El living-comedor contaba con una larguísima mesa, alrededor de la cual se fueron sentando los parroquianos.</div>
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<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">One of the Monday night parties – Sitting, with a red sweater, Pepe.</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">To his right, Fernando; standing, with a ‘smiley’ shirt, Martín</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Una de las ‘partuzas’ de los lunes – Sentado, con sweater rojo, Pepe.</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">A su derecha, Fernando; parado con una remera con un ‘smiley’, Martín</font></em></div>
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<div align="justify">El menú era sencillo, y se me antoja, recurrente: luego de una &#8216;picada&#8217; (quesos, jamón, salame, etc), hubo empanadas de carne como entrada y después asado con ensaladas y papas. Todo estaba preparado y servido muy rudamente, &#8216;a lo macho&#8217;. Después de todo, nadie estaba allí para juzgar la presentación de la comida, porque era algo completamente secundario. Así como había mucha comida, también había abundantes provisiones como para &#8216;regarla&#8217;. Creo -que me corrija mi hermano- que la casa de Fernando se comunicaba con la de Carlos Cela, aquel hombre <a href="http://lfwaterloo.blogspot.com/2009/11/there-are-places-i-remember-01.html">que retraté</a> no hace mucho y que tiene un maravilloso mercado que parece detenido en el tiempo. Las botellas de vino bajaban a velocidad supersónica y luego &#8216;volaban&#8217; por encima de nuestras cabezas para caer haciendo un gran estrépito en el piso de madera. Increíblemente, no se rompían sino que parecían rebotar en un piso de madera que de tan vieja amortiguaba el impacto. Cada tanto, Carlos salía rumbo a su mercado a buscar más provisiones&#8230;.</div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div align="justify">Haré la historia corta: se comió y bebió de manera descomunal. Antes y después, la velada fue matizada por juegos de cartas -los tradicionales juegos de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco">truco</a> y <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tute">tute</a>- y por una gran cantidad de cuentos y chistes que difícilmente pueda repetir (&#8216;chistes verdes&#8217;, como decimos nosotros). Todo era tan simple como eso, pero a la vez capaz de unir a gente tan distinta de manera tan profunda.</div>
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<div align="justify">Martín y yo, que habíamos ido con toda la intriga del mundo pero también, para qué negarlo, con toda la soberbia adolescente de decir &#8216;nos vamos a comer todo&#8217;, terminamos prácticamente tirados en el suelo, con la barriga hinchada y sin poder movernos de tanto que habíamos comido y cansados de tanto que nos habíamos reído&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe, a nuestro lado, seguía comiendo. Con este hombre no se podía competir&#8230;</div>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62; My grandfather Pepe loved going out, that was no secret. He would leave and who knows when he was coming back&#8230; the oddity about this is that my grandmother was exactly the opposite, she loved staying in playing cards or watching TV. &#160; During the summer, Pepe&#8217;s routine consisted in taking the bus and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lfwaterloo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3255295&amp;post=8837&amp;subd=lfwaterloo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30" />My grandfather Pepe loved going out, that was no secret. He would leave and who knows when he was coming back&#8230; the oddity about this is that my grandmother was exactly the opposite, she loved staying in playing cards or watching TV.</div>
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<div align="justify">During the summer, Pepe&#8217;s routine consisted in taking the bus and going to the beach at around 9 AM, coming back right after dusk. My grandmother, in the meantime, would stay home because according to her &#8216;sand in Necochea has a lot of iodine and it was bad for her&#8217;&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Fighting was something they would definitely do together (though it wasn&#8217;t anything bad, just arguing and complaining), so it wasn&#8217;t that big of a surprise to see my grandfather heading out all the time&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="justify">But there was something Pepe did that was very mysterious and had all of his grandchildren intrigued. Every Monday evening, at around 8 PM, Pepe would say &#8216;I&#8217;m going over to Fernando&#8217;s place&#8217; and he would disappear until the wee hours of the night. If we just happened to be still up by the time he came back (let&#8217;s say it was summer and my grandmother had &#8216;kidnapped&#8217; us so we would play cards with her), we would see him come back, &#8216;visibly affected&#8217; after so many hours of partying&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ))</div>
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<div align="justify">Fernando was Fernando Moreira, a very old friend of Pepe, who lived just half a block away. A loner, we never knew whether he was single or a widower; he had won a lot of money in the lottery and had decided to spend it the best way he could: by organizing fantastic dinners with his friends every week. There were man from all ages and precedence that would meet at his place every Monday night, eating and drinking to the point of exhaustion. </div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe -of course- attended those meetings with religious punctuality. It was known that nobody could compete with him when it was about eating and drinking (my brother-in-law Daniel had called him -with all justice- &#8216;The Hurricane&#8217;, because there would be nothing left after he hit the table), but we suspected that there was something else behind such a commitment. Very intrigued, all the grandchildren (especially mi brother Martín and I) started to dig deeper into this, until one day the unexpected happened: Pepe invited to go with him!</div>
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<div align="justify">We arrived to the place like who is going to participate of a social experiment. We almost showed up with a notepad and a pencil! We found, as we were expecting, lots of people (all male) from different places, ages and social classes, some of our own age or people we actually knew personally. Fernando&#8217;s house, very humble and of a traditional Argentine style, had a semi-open corridor (which we called &#8216;gallery&#8217;) that would end in the kitchen. To the sides, you&#8217;d find doors communicating to the different rooms in the house. The living room/dining room featured a very long table, around which everybody started to sit.</div>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1SjQHKFe8I/AAAAAAAAKlw/mQTpieTULLM/s1600-h/foto%201%5B7%5D.jpg"><img title="foto 1" border="0" alt="foto 1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1SjQpnPDYI/AAAAAAAAKl0/1I-j6a_vrsQ/foto%201_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="351" height="484" /></a> <em><font color="#ff8000">Pepe (behind) and Fernando</font> – <font color="#0080ff">Pepe (detrás) y Fernando</font> (2003)</em></div>
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<div align="justify">The menu was very simple, and I though, recurring: after a &#8216;picada&#8217; (a cheese table with ham, salami, etc), we had beef empanadas and then a traditionally Argentine barbecue, with salads and/or fries. Everything was prepared and served in a very casual, rudimentary way, &#8216;macho style&#8217;. After all, nobody was there to judge the way food was being presented, that was absolutely secondary. There was a lot of food, but also enough provisions to be able to &#8216;lubricate&#8217; it. <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I believe -Martín, please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong- that Fernando&#8217;s house was communicated to his next door neighbour&#8217;s, who was Carlos Cela, that man <a href="http://lfwaterloo.blogspot.com/2009/11/there-are-places-i-remember-01.html">I had portrayed</a> not long ago, and who owns that fantastic grocery store that seems to be stopped in time. The bottles of wine were going down at supersonic speed, and then flying over our heads to land on the floor making a big noise. Incredibly, they wouldn&#8217;t break on contact, but instead bounce on a very old wooden floor that seemed to absorb the impact. Every hour or so, Carlos would rush back to his store to get more wine&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Long story short: people ate and drank as if it were the last time. Before and after, we played cards -the traditional games of &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco">truco</a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tute">tute</a>&#8216;- and tell lots of jokes and stories that I can&#8217;t hardly repeat here (we would call them &#8216;green jokes&#8217;). It was as simple as that, but at the same time it was an exceptional way for such a large and diverse group of people to bond.</div>
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<div align="justify">Me and Martín, who had attended the party very intrigued, but at the same time full of that teenage arrogance that made us say &#8216;we&#8217;re going to eat everything&#8217;, ended practically laying on the floor, our bellies swollen and almost unable to move because of how much we had eaten, and exhausted after having laughed so hard&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe was right by our side, still eating. As I said, you could not compete with this man&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30" />Que a mi abuelo Pepe le gustaba salir no era secreto para nadie. El tipo agarraba la calle y vaya a saber cuándo volvía&#8230; lo curioso del caso es que mi abuela era exactamente lo opuesto, no había cosa que le gustara más que quedarse en casa jugando a las cartas o mirando televisión.</div>
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<div align="justify">En el verano, Pepe se tomaba el bus y se iba a la playa a eso de las 9 de la mañana, y muchas veces no volvía hasta bien entrada la noche. Mi abuela, mientras tanto, se quedaba en casa porque según ella, &#8216;la arena de Necochea tenía mucho yodo y a ella le hacía mal&#8217;&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pelearse era también un pasatiempo que ambos cultivaban (aunque jamás pasaba de un par de rezongos) así que no nos extrañaba tanto que el abuelo se rajara todo el tiempo&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<div align="justify">Pero había algo Pepe hacía que llamaba poderosamente la atención de todos los nietos. Los lunes a la tardecita, casi entrando la noche, Pepe decía &#8216;me voy a lo de Fernando&#8217; y desaparecía hasta bien entrada la madrugada. Si por casualidad llegábamos a estar levantados cuando volvía (por ejemplo, era verano y la abuela nos había &#8216;mantenido cautivos&#8217; para jugar a las cartas), lo veíamos volver a Pepe, y venía &#8216;visiblemente afectado&#8217; después de la parranda&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ))</div>
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<div align="justify">Fernando era Fernando Moreira, un viejo amigo del abuelo que vivía a media cuadra de su casa. Un hombre solo, del que nunca supe si era soltero o viudo, había ganado una fortuna en la lotería y había decidido disfrutarla de la mejor manera posible: organizando pantagruélicas cenas con sus amigos. Hombres de todas las edades y extracciones se citaban en su casa todos los lunes por la noche y le daban &#8216;al diente&#8217; y &#8216;al chupi&#8217; hasta más no poder. Como diríamos en Argentina, &#8216;se tomaban hasta el agua de los floreros&#8217;.</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe respetaba estos encuentros con puntualidad religiosa. Sabido era que mi abuelo no tenía par a la hora de comer y tomar (mi cuñado Daniel lo había bautizado con justicia &#8216;El huracán&#8217; porque por donde pasaba él no quedaba nada), pero nosotros suponíamos que había algo más detrás de tanta fidelidad. Intrigadísimos, los nietos (sobre todo mi hermano Martín y yo) comenzamos a interiorizarnos más sobre el tema, hasta que un día sucedió lo inesperado: Pepe nos invitó a ambos a ir con él</div>
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<div align="justify">Acudimos a la cita como quien va a presenciar un experimento social. Poco faltó para que lleváramos un anotador y un lápiz para tomar nota! Nos encontramos, como imaginábamos, con decenas de personas (todos hombres) de distintas procedencias, edades y clases sociales, algunos hasta contemporáneos nuestros o gente que conocíamos personalmente. La casa de Fernando, muy sencilla y de un estilo muy tradicional en Argentina, tenía un corredor semi-abierto (que nosotros llamamos &#8216;galería&#8217;) que desembocaba en la cocina. A los costados, una hilera de puertas comunicaba con las distintas habitaciones. El living-comedor contaba con una larguísima mesa, alrededor de la cual se fueron sentando los parroquianos.</div>
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<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">One of the Monday night parties – Sitting, with a red sweater, Pepe.</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#ff8000">To his right, Fernando; standing, with a ‘smiley’ shirt, Martín</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">Una de las ‘partuzas’ de los lunes – Sentado, con sweater rojo, Pepe.</font></em></div>
<div align="center"><em><font color="#0080ff">A su derecha, Fernando; parado con una remera con un ‘smiley’, Martín</font></em></div>
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<div align="justify">El menú era sencillo, y se me antoja, recurrente: luego de una &#8216;picada&#8217; (quesos, jamón, salame, etc), hubo empanadas de carne como entrada y después asado con ensaladas y papas. Todo estaba preparado y servido muy rudamente, &#8216;a lo macho&#8217;. Después de todo, nadie estaba allí para juzgar la presentación de la comida, porque era algo completamente secundario. Así como había mucha comida, también había abundantes provisiones como para &#8216;regarla&#8217;. Creo -que me corrija mi hermano- que la casa de Fernando se comunicaba con la de Carlos Cela, aquel hombre <a href="http://lfwaterloo.blogspot.com/2009/11/there-are-places-i-remember-01.html">que retraté</a> no hace mucho y que tiene un maravilloso mercado que parece detenido en el tiempo. Las botellas de vino bajaban a velocidad supersónica y luego &#8216;volaban&#8217; por encima de nuestras cabezas para caer haciendo un gran estrépito en el piso de madera. Increíblemente, no se rompían sino que parecían rebotar en un piso de madera que de tan vieja amortiguaba el impacto. Cada tanto, Carlos salía rumbo a su mercado a buscar más provisiones&#8230;.</div>
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<div align="justify">Haré la historia corta: se comió y bebió de manera descomunal. Antes y después, la velada fue matizada por juegos de cartas -los tradicionales juegos de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco">truco</a> y <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tute">tute</a>- y por una gran cantidad de cuentos y chistes que difícilmente pueda repetir (&#8216;chistes verdes&#8217;, como decimos nosotros). Todo era tan simple como eso, pero a la vez capaz de unir a gente tan distinta de manera tan profunda.</div>
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<div align="justify">Martín y yo, que habíamos ido con toda la intriga del mundo pero también, para qué negarlo, con toda la soberbia adolescente de decir &#8216;nos vamos a comer todo&#8217;, terminamos prácticamente tirados en el suelo, con la barriga hinchada y sin poder movernos de tanto que habíamos comido y cansados de tanto que nos habíamos reído&#8230;</div>
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<div align="justify">Pepe, a nuestro lado, seguía comiendo. Con este hombre no se podía competir&#8230;</div>
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		<title>The comic strip based on Santi’s life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I showed you a comic strip a few days ago, and I referred to it as being from the ‘best comic strip in the world’ or something like that. Well, in case you didn’t know what I was talking about, let me explain. &#160; “Zits” is a comic strip written by Jerry Scott (also author [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lfwaterloo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3255295&amp;post=6574&amp;subd=lfwaterloo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div align="justify"><img border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30" />I showed you a comic strip a few days ago, and I referred to it as being from the ‘<em>best comic strip in the world’</em> or something like that. Well, in case you didn’t know what I was talking about, let me explain.</div>
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<div align="justify">“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zits">Zits</a>” is a comic strip written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Scott">Jerry Scott</a> (also author of the equally funny “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Blues">Baby blues</a>”) and illustrated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Borgman">Jim Borgman</a>. It talks about a 16 year old kid named Jeremy Duncan, who lives in some Midwestern town along with his parents, Walt (an orthodontist) and Connie (a child psychologist). He has an older brother, Chad, but he has been rarely seen (he’s studying at the University of Nôtre Dame). </div>
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<div align="justify">The strip is mostly based on Jeremy and his life at school, though it’s the interaction with his parents at home the part that I enjoy the most. The supporting characters are many, and of all kinds: Sara is his on-again/off-again girlfriend; Hector García is his best friend; Pierce is another friend who’s into tattoos and, well, piercing; Viral is the typical over-achiever and the object of Jeremy’s obsession for a short period of time.</div>
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<div align="justify">If you have teenage kids, I strongly recommend you take a look at this comic strip. It’s just hilarious! I got totally hooked, and continue to look for books I can buy. One of the few things that can make me laugh out loud when I’m alone…</div>
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<div align="justify">Hace unos días les mostré una tira cómica y les dije algo así como que era ‘<em>la mejor historieta del mundo’</em>… Bueno, en caso de que no sepan de qué estaba hablando, les explicaré.</div>
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<div align="justify">“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zits">Zits</a>” es una historieta escrita por <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Scott">Jerry Scott</a> (autor también de la muy divertida “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Blues">Baby blues</a>”) y dibujada por <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Borgman">Jim Borgman</a>. Se centra en la vida de un chico de 16 años llamado Jeremy Duncan, que vive en un suburbio del centro-oeste con sus padres, Walt (ortodoncista) y Connie (psicopedagoga). Tiene un hermano mayor llamado Chad, pero raramente se lo ve por la casa, porque estudia afuera (en la Universidad de Nôtre Dame).</div>
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<div align="justify">Como dije, la historieta está más que nada basada en Jeremy y su vida en la escuela, aunque es la interacción con sus padres en casa lo que más me divierte. Los personajes secundarios son muchos, y de todo tipo: Sara es su novia, con quien van y vienen; Héctor García es su mejor amigo; Pierce es otro buen amigo fanático de los tatuajes y, bueno, el piercing; Viral es la típica estudiante que hace de todo y todo bien, y por un tiempo se convierte en la obsesión de Jeremy.</div>
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<div align="justify">Si tienen hijos adolescentes, les recomiendo que busquen y lean esta historieta. Es divertidísima! Yo estoy totalmente ‘enganchado’, y continúo buscando libros para comprar. Una de las pocas cosas que me hacen reír en voz alta aunque esté solo…</div>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Jeremy, cuando bajas las escaleras suena como una manada de elefantes!</em></p>
<p align="justify"><em>- Oh, perdón</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Qué especie preferirías que fuera?</em></p>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1IysVwj__I/AAAAAAAAKkw/CCCi8Pd8504/s1600-h/zits_0873.gif"><img title="zits_087" border="0" alt="zits_087" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1IyuTzmjmI/AAAAAAAAKk0/E4g7DxHsgAc/zits_087_thumb1.gif?imgmax=800" width="604" height="297" /></a></div>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Jeremy, no podés hacer más ruido al bajar las escaleras?</em></p>
<p align="justify"><em>- Oh, perdón</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Cómo estuvo eso?</em></p>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1IyvamcuBI/AAAAAAAAKk4/zKVCvuTB7m0/s1600-h/zits_10001.gif"><img title="zits_1000" border="0" alt="zits_1000" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1IywQDeJYI/AAAAAAAAKk8/eHltjxL6ZLc/zits_1000_thumb.gif?imgmax=800" width="604" height="194" /></a></div>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Esta canción es buenísima! De hecho, me gustan todas las canciones de estos tipos. Cómo se llama el grupo</em></p>
<p align="justify"><em>- Acá está el CD, podés quedártelo.</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Qué hacés sentada en el piso?</em></p>
<p align="justify"><em>- Tratando de hacerme a la idea de que me gusta una banda que se llama “Escupida de Satán”</em></p>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1IyxMxtgDI/AAAAAAAAKlA/x02JZi31MZs/s1600-h/zits_1002%5B1%5D.gif"><img title="zits_1002" border="0" alt="zits_1002" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1Iyye8x9vI/AAAAAAAAKlE/XjkU9NTlAb0/zits_1002_thumb.gif?imgmax=800" width="604" height="194" /></a></div>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Jeremy, por fin!</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Sabía que mi paciencia iba a dar resultados algún día!</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Llevó mucho tiempo, pero finalmente tomaste la iniciativa de plancharte tu ropa!</em></p>
<p align="justify"><em>- Qué cosa</em>?</p>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1IyzFI9ztI/AAAAAAAAKlI/lpmLxl0AouI/s1600-h/zits_10181.gif"><img title="zits_1018" border="0" alt="zits_1018" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1Iy0UBxdgI/AAAAAAAAKlM/BklXAShWIiI/zits_1018_thumb1.gif?imgmax=800" width="654" height="220" /></a></div>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Fuera de aquí!!! La cena es en quince minutos!!!                <br />- Sólo quiero probar un poquito…</em></p>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1Iy1NTth5I/AAAAAAAAKlQ/as8nimw-lp0/s1600-h/zits_10471.gif"><img title="zits_1047" border="0" alt="zits_1047" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1Iy2IdxNhI/AAAAAAAAKlU/mfvAd7zJg4w/zits_1047_thumb1.gif?imgmax=800" width="529" height="171" /></a></div>
<div align="center">&#160;<em>- No tengo nada que ponerme!</em></div>
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<div align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1Iy22Vi1nI/AAAAAAAAKlY/vbsPiZAPwYQ/s1600-h/zits_10501.gif"><img title="zits_1050" border="0" alt="zits_1050" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S1Iy3mDYwRI/AAAAAAAAKlc/ig2PQWLog0c/zits_1050_thumb1.gif?imgmax=800" width="529" height="170" /></a></div>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Pasó algo interesante en la escuela hoy, Jeremy?</em></p>
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<p align="justify">- <em>Man!!! Por fin llamaste! Espera a que te cuente lo que pasó hoy!!!</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Eh… no.</em></p>
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<div align="left"><em><font color="#0080ff"><strong>También está basado un poquito en <u>mi</u> vida…</strong></font></em></div>
<div align="left"><em><font color="#ff8000"><strong>It’s also loosely based on <u>my</u> life…</strong></font></em></div>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Hola?</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Hola?</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Hola?</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Hola?</em></p>
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<p align="justify"><em>- Es como observar una sandalia sacudirse en el fondo de un bote</em></p>
<p align="justify"><em>- Pero más patético&#8230;</em></p>
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