BLOOD, DEATH AND A MIRACLE IN MADRID

March 20, 2009

Tags: Madrid, ambulance, hospital, blood, death, last words, aging parent, aging mother, pneumonia, force-feeding, diarrhea, yankee spirit, Mark Twain

I was in Boston when I got a call from a doctor in Madrid who told me he was at my mother’s and had sent her in an ambulance to the hospital, but didn’t think she would be alive by the time she got there. Glassfuls of blood were pouring from my mother's mouth (more…)

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Paradise
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Novela (in Spanish)
El paraíso
Una niña refugiada presencia los amores y las costumbres de los ricos, y las injusticias del sistema de clases en Latinoamérica.
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El Teatro Chileno de Mediados del Siglo XX
Estudio crítico del "chilenismo" en la dramaturgia chilena de mediados del siglo XX.

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