Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Torre finds she is not strong enough to abandon her life-long work as an activist to take care of Vera's child and Lopito's ugly little girl. Resolving to work again for freedom in her country, she leaps out of Vera's car and consequently throws potential love and happiness out of her life...
...Vera and Torre must hide in bushes from the armored patrol cars that roam the streets with a license to kill anything that moves, and in the process they revive their relationship of years before. They also discuss the inner conflicts--Torre torn between her aristocratic heritage and her love for her people, and Vera confused between his distance from Chile and his desire to help...
...dictatorship is to learn that death, imprisonment and torture are unregulated and arbitrary things. Though the action is somewhat difficult to follow, the novel itself is intriguing, and one can only hope that Donoso's words will inspire a new generation of Chileans to fight for the freedom and love they deserve...
Yuan adeptly sidestepped a question about whether she was happy with her job and her family situation. "The Chinese have a saying 'Do your job, then love your job,'" she said...
...that she is blessed with sympathy and compassion for all. "Do you think we should really cry for eveyone, everywhere according to Jesus?" Coles asks. "Yes sir, I do," she answers. Stories like that are enough to turn you in on yourself--who you are, how much anger, or love, is part...