Carmen Muñoz met Juan Gonzáles in the spring of the year the wild dogs infested and that preceded the great flood. Dogs were running through the fields in such quantities destroying the sown crops, they peered out from everywhere, they had kindly eyes and lolling tongues, and it was not clear how so many were fed. People got used to them, kicked them out of the way instead of stones and the next year, when most of them drowned in the flood or swam off to who knows where, their antics were often remembered.
Carmen came for Juan to the telecommunications tower, which Juan often sat under on his haunches. That day he couldn't concentrate too well on his usual observation of ants and butterflies.
“I love your eyes,” she said and sat down opposite him.
“And my shoulders?” he asked incredulously.
“Your shoulders, too, you have the most beautiful shoulders in the world. Without your shoulders my life means nothing.” She assured him, “If anyone else wanted to hug them, I'd chase her off with a rifle. My whole life, I've been waiting for you. ”
Juan shrugged and went home with Carmen.
and day after day passed. at night, they slept together in a tight embrace and by day they planned how to celebrate the anniversaries of the day they met and their wedding. “i love your eyes,” carmen told him every day. “and my shoulders?” Juan would ask incredulously. “your shoulders are the most beautiful in the world, without you my life means nothing, my whole life i've been waiting for you, if the greengrocer's daughter comes up to you again i'll chase her off with a rifle.” answered carmen even when the greengrocer's daughter was getting married to who knows where. And day after day passed. Juan, initially out of habit, for some time, went to observe the butterflies and ants under the telecommunications tower and over time he completely forgot why he went to the telecommunications tower. “Do you love my eyes?” he would ask Carmen. “Without you my life means nothing” said Carmen and at night she woke from dreams in which she was being chased by the devil in different forms. Juan stopped sleeping altogether and Carmen started studying a telepathic course about healthy eating, learning to distinguish pork from beef, to determine when the end of the world would come and she completely forgot the celebration of their wedding and their meeting. The telepathic teacher was not satisfied with Carmen's progress, “Someone close to you is preventing you from flying, they are restricting you. Buy a new skirt and energy bars from the catalogue.” Once the package came with a new skirt and the energy bars, she told Juan that she wouldn't allow herself to be kept in a cage and to continue to endure his restraints, she would no longer allow herself to be prevented from flying. “Without Carmen my life means nothing,” thought Juan, “she has beautiful eyes.” Once again, he heard what he was accustomed to hearing over the years, but it wasn't about his eyes and about his shoulders. And it wasn't meant for his ears.
And day after day passed. This year the proliferate wild dogs were starved, some attacked people. Juan went regularly to the telecommunications tower, and counted, without interest, the butterflies and ants, but no one showed up.
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Carmen Muñoz met Juan Gonzáles in the spring of the year the wild dogs infested and that preceded the great flood. Dogs were running through the fields in such quantities destroying the sown crops, they peered out from everywhere, they had kindly eyes and lolling tongues, and it was not clear how so many were fed. People got used to them, kicked them out of the way instead of stones and the next year, when most of them drowned in the flood or swam off to who knows where, their antics were often remembered.
And day after day passed. Juan, initially out of habit, for some time, went to observe the butterflies and ants under the telecommunications tower and over time he completely forgot why he went to the telecommunications tower. “Do you love my eyes?” he would ask Carmen. “Without you my life means nothing” said Carmen and at night she woke from dreams in which she was being chased by the devil in different forms. Juan stopped sleeping altogether and Carmen started studying a telepathic course about healthy eating, learning to distinguish pork from beef, to determine when the end of the world would come and she completely forgot the celebration of their wedding and their meeting. The telepathic teacher was not satisfied with Carmen's progress, “Someone close to you is preventing you from flying, they are restricting you. Buy a new skirt and energy bars from the catalogue.” Once the package came with a new skirt and the energy bars, she told Juan that she 
wouldn't allow herself to be kept in a cage and to continue to endure his restraints, she would no longer allow herself to be prevented from flying. “Without Carmen my life means nothing,” thought Juan, “she has beautiful eyes.” Once again, he heard what he was accustomed to hearing over the years, but it wasn't about his eyes and about his shoulders. And it wasn't meant for his ears.