A Teenage Memory of Walking and Wandering: Excerpt from Daniel Saldaña París's 'The Cascades'
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Daniel Saldaña París, translated by Cristóbal Riego
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A reflective first-person narrative recounting a teenage relationship in 2001. The narrator and Yanieb, aged 17 and 18, would walk endlessly between towns, buying oranges and talking incessantly about a future of freedom. The fragment captures the simplicity and intensity of young love, ending with a striking image of realizing a truck is a hearse from the words "FUNERALES REVOLUCIÓN" on its door.
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· 4 pulledWe didn't tell people we were together—we didn't call it anything—but we were.
We'd buy a few oranges and start walking, and we wouldn't stop until we were somewhere else.
I don't remember exactly what we talked about, it's been too many years, but we talked incessantly, perhaps about a future in which we could just keep walking, without any commitments to hold us back.
As the truck slowed to a stop, I read the words FUNERALES REVOLUCIÓN printed on the door in white letters, and realized it was a hearse.
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