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Summary: Dead Stars by Paz Marquez-Benitez
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Oh what a shame! I havent posted anything for a longtime. Though
I did not want to blame it to the fact that I wasrecently buried in
a terrible work load and a painful schoolschedule made more
complicated by tasks and deadlines, Ijust cant. But come to think
of it, it wont hurt if I post thesummaries and reviews that hinder
me from reading andblogging, will it? Besides, theyre still
literature!
Dead Stars by Paz Marquez-Benitez
Alfredo Salazar was betrothed to Esperanza, his girlfriendfor
four years. The start of their relationship was relativelywarm,
with Alfredo wooing Esperanza like a man in direlovesickness. But
as the years went by, the warm lovesfire slowly flickered. And it
was because of Julia Salas.
She was charming and gleeful. He shared moments of lightbut
sometimes deep conversations with her when thelawyer Alfredo
visited Julias brother-in-law, who was ajudge. He always went there
with his father and since itwas his father who needed to talk to
the judge, he wasalways left to Julias company. He never told her
he wasengaged. At first he didnt notice that a change in his
heartwas taking form. But then he started keeping details of
hisactivities to his fiance and then the guilty feeling crept
in.when he found out that Julia was about to head back to
herdistant hometown, he felt blue and frightened.
He met her in church after the Holy Thursday procession,although
he knew that Esperanza was already waiting forhim. He approached
her and she conversed with him withan expression that told him she
finally knew. Shecongratulated him and said she will be at his
wedding.Then they parted.
When he visited Esperanza in her house, he overheard
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her talking to another woman about infidelity andimmorality, to
which he reasoned in favor of thecondemned. The statement caused an
intense fury toEsperanza and she told him that she knew. She
daredAlfredo to abandon her, along with morality and reason andher
dignity as a woman as well as her image before thesociety all for
the sake of his being fair to himself.
Eventually the wedding took place. And after several
years,Alfredo was sent to a distant village due to a
legalassignment. It bothered him so much because it was nearJulias
hometown. But he still found himself making his wayto her house
despite of himself. And he found her there,just as how and where he
expected her to be. She nevermarried. And he wondered how life
would be if he endedup with her. But all was too late and he could
never bringthings back. He also noticed that Julia lost
something,albeit the fact that he didnt know what that is youth,
love,luster? And when he looked at her he doubted if she evercared
for him, if he has mistaken the past light in her eyesas
manifestations of a possible romance. But now theyreall gone. And
so it was indeed all done.
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