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She made her living selling
words. . . . Her prices were fair. For five centavos she delivered
verses from memory, for seven she improved the quality of dreams,
for nine she wrote love letters, for twelve she invented insults
for irreconcilable enemies. She also sold stories, not fantasies
but long, true stories she recited at one telling, never skipping
a word. . . . It seemed to her that selling words would be an honorable
alternative. From that moment on, she worked at that profession,
and was never tempted by any other.
-- Isabel Allende, "The Stories of Eva Luna," 1991
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