Unhinged At Pretty Ass

"She was indeed a very special kind of woman, illiterate and absolutely simple but rigid in her honesty, her loyalty, her unforgiving refusal to accept Cantate's concubine. She raised three children with love and sternness, beating them cruelly when they stole ut working ceaselessly to feed and clothe them. For a year I watched her face turn hard and bitter and the big bright smile full of delight and teeth fade from her face. Consumed by a steady rage she grew old before my eyes. I said nothing, trying only to soften her pain by talking in generalities about the fickle and childish nature of Ecuadorian Macho's and ease with which their lies could come on hinges at the wiggle of a pretty ass."

- Moritz Thomsen. The Saddest Pleasure. A Journey On Two Rivers.