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She found them in the kitchen sink, still in their cream-colored vase but placed on the floor of the deep sink so that they seemed strangled by its white ceramic lip, so that they seemed, the washed dishes on the drainboard beside them, the low shelf with the boxes of detergent and bleach and mothballs above, suddenly awkward in their beauty, foolish and inappropriate.
Las encontró ella misma en la pila de la cocina, todavía dentro del búcaro de color crema, pero en el fondo del hondo fregadero para que pareciesen estranguladas por los bordes de la loza blanca, para que parecieran, entre los platos lavados del escurridor adyacente y el pequeño anaquel donde estaban el detergente en polvo, la lejía y las bolas de naftalina, cursis a causa precisamente de su hermosura, ridículas y fuera de lugar.
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