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"The procession is over. María, a 33-year-old mother, and Victoria, her 11-year-old daughter, are among the hubbub of people. Mom catches her daughter by the shoulder and holding hands, leaves there, walk slowly, with difficulty due to so many people, Maria stumbles and falls to the ground. Victoria knows how sick her mother is.They go up the stairs to their house and Maria has to stop, she gets tired, it's five floors. Already in the living room, Victoria he takes a chair and draws the rose that his mother has left in a glass vase. Victoria in her room unties the scarf from her head, a small lock is caught by the knot. He returns to the living room with Victoria who continues to draw. María lies down and closes her eyes but the sound and smell of the pencil make her open them, look at her daughter, smile and close her eyes again. Maria remembers when she was a model and posed in a modest study of painting, naked and with the handkerchief on her sex. In the same place, the rose is now withered in the vase. A girl is sitting on it stool with the same headscarf as Maria. It is Victoria who signs the drawing dated 09/09/2019."