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"This is the first time since then that the table has been full."
The kitchen was quiet for a moment.
Then Marta said: "Then we should fill it properly," and went back to the side dishes.
Catalina arrived at six with the translated novel — not her first, her third, which had been published in October and which she had dedicated, in the author's note, to "the house where I learned what I was for." She was carrying a copy for Màiri, inscribed in Catalan, which Màiri could not read but which Catalina translated on the spot with the specific pleasure of someone who loved what languages could do.
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