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The Bitter Taste of Time by Bea Gonzalez
“By early morning a throng had congregated to watch the scene unfold — the old women arriving first, dressed in their customary black, a speck of grey flickering in the odd blouse, a hint of green emerging from a shawl wrapped around an aged back, the young appearing later, excited, teasing each other in strident tones and insistent laughs, ignoring their mothers’ admonitions to be silent, for this was no time for silence when look, mama, mira, things are crumbling, the sky is closing in around us, the world as we know it is falling apart. Before them stood the demolition crew — tired-looking men dressed in blue jeans and dusty cotton shirts — smoking some of them, all of them amused by the expectation that was weaving its way through the crowd, the old lamenting already what they were about to witness, the young revelling in the excitement of what was to come.
“The Encarna and Hope Hotel, once the most important building in Canteira back in the days of the Dictator — the good old days to some, the days of unbearable ignorance to most — would be the first to come crashing down.”
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