Thirty
Thursday, May 4th, 2006Once there had been a rare and awesome love between Willie’s mother and father. They had been everything to each other. And though the story of its failure could place a profound cynicism in the heart of even the most irreclaimable romantic, those who knew them would say only that a flame of such intensity could not have been expected to burn for very long. “Eres la mujer de mi vida�? Felo said to her when they first met. But in the beginning, Carmen resisted her destiny. She was seventeen when they met, and only ten years later did she finally relent and marry him. In the intervening years, Felo married another woman, had a child with her, threw himself passionately into his music, became bitter and disillusioned, proved again the great fertility of his seed by impregnating a mistress, became a drug dealer, divorced his first wife, quarreled irreconcilably with his mistress, advanced considerably in his new career, and finally made his way back to Carmen Mercedes Luna, the most beautiful girl in Sabana Iglesia, República Dominicana.
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