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CONCHITA: Yes, you're right. And I don't know what good he gets from losing all that money.

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CONCHITA: Yes, you're right. And I don't know what good he gets from losing all that money.

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PALOMO: Oh, that's something we'll never know. (Beginning to roll)

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CONCHITA: I don't mind rolling cigars.

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PALOMO: And what's so good about rolling cigars?

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CONCHITA: You would say something like that.

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PALOMO: Why? Because I like money?

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CONCHITA: You don't care about anything, do you? Juan Julian could reading a book by José Martí or Shakes- peare and everything goes in one ear and out the other.

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PALOMO: I pay attention to,what he reads. I just don't take everything to heart the way you do.

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CONCHITA: Plenty.

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PALOMO: Plenty can be a lot of money.

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CONCHITA: Places made of dreams.

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PALOMO (Laughs; becoming playful): You're a strange creature, Conchita. I don't know why I married you.

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CONCHITA: No. I asked you a simple question about a love story and you're being foolish.

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PALOMO: Never mind.

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CONCHITA: Ah, the truth comes out. That explains everything. You never really cared for me.

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PALOMO: Are you trying to start a fight?

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CONCHITA: I have the same right as you do.

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PALOMO: This book will be the end of us.

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CONCHITA: I'm talking about literature and you talk about money.

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PALOMO: And what do you want me to say?

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CONCHITA: Things that you wouldn't tell me, afraid that I might not understand.

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PALOMO: Like what?

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CONCHITA: And how do you like the novel that Juan Julian is reading to us?

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PALOMO: I like it very much.

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CONCHITA: And if I tell you that I want to cut my hair, change the way I dress and take on a lover.

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PALOMO: Say that again?

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CONCHITA: I want you to talk about the story, the charac- ters...

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PALOMO: Wouldn't you like to have all the money they have? So you don't have to spend the whole day rolling cig- ars and working after hours so we can save money and have our own business.

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CONCHITA: Oh, I could see the husband so clear in the novel. How the thoughts would take shape in his mind, as they have in my own mind. I mean, not the same ... No, no . . . Not the same, because he's an educated man, surrounded by culture and wealth, and I'm just a cigar roller in a factory. He is well bred and sophisti- cated. I barely get by in life. But with this book I'm seeing everything through new eyes. What is happening in the novel has been happening to us. No. Don't look at me that way. You might not want to admit it, but Anna and her husband remind me of us. Except I'm more like the husband.

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PALOMO: So wha bes that make me then, Anna Karenina?

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CONCHITA: And do you ever think about everything that's happening between Anna Karenina and her husband?

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PALOMO: I do... But I...

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CONCHITA: Not anymore.

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PALOMO: Well, that's a change.

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CONCHITA: The part about the lover.

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PALOMO: It seems like in every novel there's always a love affair.

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CONCHITA: You married me because the day you met me, I gave you a cigar I had rolled especially for you and when you smoked it, you told me I had slipped into your mouth like a pearl diver.

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PALOMO: I told you that?

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CONCHITA: Don't you think we've already come to the end?

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PALOMO: No...I...

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CONCHITA: Well, you should. Do you remember that part of the book in which Anna Karenina's husband is suspi- cious of her having an affair with Vronsky? Remember when he paces the room, like a lost animal.

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PALOMO: I know what you're getting at.

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CONCHITA: Jealousy. For Anna's husband jealousy is base and almost animalistic. And he's right. He would never want Anna to think that he's capable of such vile and shameful emotions.

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PALOMO: But you can't help being jealous. It's part of your nature.

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CONCHITA: I just want to have a civilized conversation. The same way the characters speak to each other in the novel. I've learned many things from this book.

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PALOMO: Such as?

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CONCHITA: You are the one who has the secret love, not me.

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PALOMO: Oh, come on. It's late. Let's go home. I can't work like this.

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CONCHITA: My mind wanders to other places.

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PALOMO: What places?

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CONCHITA: I'd like to know what she's like. And what does she do to make you happy?

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PALOMO: Ah, let's go home.

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CONCHITA: Not the places I go to in my mind.

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money can't everything. PALOMO: And what kind of places are you talking about?

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CONCHITA: Doesn't it make you uncomfortable?

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PALOMO: Why would it make me uncomfortable?

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CONCHITA: Why?

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PALOMO (Abruptly): Because I don't want to talk about these things! (A pause.)

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CONCHITA: That's exactly what Anna said when the husband confronted her about the lover: "It's late. Let's go to sleep."

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PALOMO: I think you're taking this a little too far.

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CONCHITA: Yes, you did. After blowing a blue ring of smoke out of your mouth. And the words lingered in the air like a zeppelin and I thought to myself, I could fall in love with that mouth.

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PALOMO: As far as I can remember, I married you because I couldn't untie your father's hands from around my neck.

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CONCHITA: You don't make love to me like you used to.

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PALOMO: Well, we ... You and I.. . We ...

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CONCHITA: Places and things money can't buy.

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PALOMO: Money can buy everything.

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CONCHITA: Am I? Have you ever heard the voice of someone who's deaf? The voice is crude and ancient, because it has no sense of direction or place, because it doesn't hear itself and it doesn't know if anybody else in the world hears it. Sometimes I want to have a long con- versation with you, like this. Like a deaf person. As if I couldn't hear you or myself. But I would just talk and talk, and say everything that comes my mind, like a shell that shouts with the voice of the sea and it doesn't care if anybody ever hears it. That's how I want to speak to you, and ask you things.

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PALOMO: And what's the use of talking like this? What sort of things do you want to ask me?

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CONCHITA: So what's going to happen to us, Palomo?

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PALOMO: I don't know. Do you want a divorce? We could travel to Reno and be divorced in six weeks. But your family will be opposed to it, and the same with mine. So divorce is out of the question.

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CONCHITA: Yes, like you do.

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PALOMO: Ave Maria purissima!

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CONCHITA: What I just said.

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PALOMO: You want to have a lover?

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CONCHITA: So what goes through your mind when you listen to the story?

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PALOMO: I think of the money all those people have.

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