She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been oblig…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.
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