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Lo estuve leyendo y me está pareciendo muy interesante. Al principio pensé que la hermana quería robarle el marido pero después me di cuenta que no, lo que si me parece muy parecida a Nora de "Casa de Muñecas" por su forma de ser. Nunca me espere lo de el marido que le pegaba porque parecía muy amable y todo fiel a ella.

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In the story “Secrets”, Mary is the aunt of the narrator, she is on her deathbed. She is very present in the memories of her nephew and because she is dying he remembers an event that changed their relationship.
Mary is an old woman, who has always been small. When she was young, she had long dark hair and she had eyes that said so much without words. When she was old she had fresh skin, white and wave hair. She almost didn’t use jewelry except for a ring and a chain. On her deathbed, her face seems to start vanishing, her white hair is damp and pushed back from her forehead and her eyes are closed. The old woman has a lot of respect for private life and wants people to care what she thinks. She gets angry when people invade her privacy.
The grandaunt does not talk a lot and does not talk about her life. She has a calm tone of voice. However, when she gets angry her tone becomes a bit rude. Mary was in love of Brother Benignus. He is an ex soldier that Mary knew and she was in love with, they communicated by letters.
She had a good relationship with her nephew and he disobeyed her by reading her letters because of this, she slapped him. The narrator is afraid of this grandaunt but he feels guilty because of what he has done.  However Brother Benignus feels an other thing, he is in love with her and is sorry because he will not write to her again.
“‘A-A-A’, she moved her pen from side to side. ‘Do-not-touch’, she said and smiled. ‘Anything else, yes! That section, no!’”. this quote represents best the kind of person Mary is. It represents how important private life is to her. If Mary was an animal would be an owl because it represents the mystery and all the secrets she has. The owl only goes out in the night and is on the tree almost without making any sound and staring at you and that gives you the feeling of mystery.

How you be an astrologer

1. Have an a dozen cowrie shells.
2. Have a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it.
3. Have a netbook.
4. Have a bundle of palmyra writing.
5. Have the forehead  re- splendent with sacred ash and vermilion.
6. Have the eyes sparkle with a sharp abnormal gleam.
7. Have a saffron-coloured turban around the head.
8. Have a crystal  ball.
9. Have some tarot cards.
10. Have astrological cards