Second Bloom
The conversation is parallel to the book, both happening simultaneously, which is very Clara.
"He said that?"
"He said you were like the sailors. You knew your stars."
Valentina is very still for a moment.
She thinks about the lecture hall — the fluorescent light, the notebook, the three words in the margin. She thinks about the list she has been carrying since she was twenty: the ROTC, New York, the commission, the file, Isabel, David, the Priorat, the Azores, Begur, Buenos Aires. She thinks about the people who became hers: Ethan, Clara, Rosa and Pep, Clàudia, Ferran and Laia and Júlia, Cristina, the Coles, Sofía, António, Montse, Álvaro, Inés, Camila.
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