Executive Times. Click on title or picture to buy from amazon. Old age need not diminish the search for love, and the passage of time may increase the desire for love. Sadness pervades this book, as does the pleasure of finding love. Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing.
I live without dogs or birds or servants, except for the faithful Damiana who has rescued me from the most unexpected difficulties, and who still comes once a week to take care of whatever there is to do, even in the state she is in, losing her sight and her acumen.
I intended to comply with her request, but my notion of youth was so flexible I never thought it was too late. Oh, excuse me, I managed to say, my heart in my mouth. She smiled, turned toward me with the grace of a gazelle, and showed me her entire body. The whole room felt saturated with her intimacy. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.
But Ximena Ortiz prevented that. She was impossible to resist. I knew it would never turn into love, but the satanic attraction she held for me was so fiery that I attempted to find relief with every green-eyed tart I came across. I never could put out the flame of her memory in the bed at Pradomar , and so I surrendered my weapons to her with a formal request for her hand, an exchange of rings, and the announcement of a large wedding before Pentecost.
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