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"Honey?" Juan Tomas whispered softly to his wife Apolonia.
"Yes sweetie?" she replied as lovable as honey.
"I'm worriedÉI'm worried for Kino," he said anxiously. "He has lost the chance of selling the luminescent pearl; the possibility of living in a better and wealthier life. The opportunity of having a finer future for him, and for Coyotito. He is now surrounded by evil and cruelty. That pearlÉthat incandescent silver pearl, has ruined him, and his harmonious soul. He is in big trouble now. Currently everyone is being nice and generous to himÉthey all want one thing: the money, the pearl. They will search for himÉthey could also kill him. Something will go wrong and tragedy and misery will then follow us for the rest of our generations. I knowÉI KNOW! Kino has pushed down his fears, as they were barriers that blocked his way, and this path has now brought him to unbelievable thought and actions. AndÉ"
"Hush my darling," Apolonia cried. "I know, I know. Kino is getting involved in a problematic life and you are worried and anxious about him, but he's a man. He knows how to go along with his daily problems."
"But this is not a daily problem which he is passing through; this is serious stuff!" Juan Tomas interrupted his wife with sorrowful eyes.
"Ah, ah, ahÉshhh," Apolonia dragged a finger to his red rough lips and continued, "You are getting too involved in this situation. This is his life and I think he should act as his heart and mind tell him. Yes, I surely agree with you, about what you think about and I would like to throw that miserable pearl in the sea and never get to search for it again, but this is their life and it's none of our business. You understand me now?" Apolonia then settled her fat but warm hand on his red cheek and stroked it softly down his face.
"Yes, but what about Juana and their poor son Coyotito, don't you think about them?" Juan Tomas replied with his shrilling voice, which turned into a low tone as soon as her fingers stopped stroking his thin face.
"I certainly think that he should have accepted those 1,500 pesos and been grateful for all that money that God sent him, which is quite a lot for a poor fisherman who gains food every day only by fishing in a stupid canoe!"
"Now hush, my husband", Apolonia said angrily, "Stop thinking about your brother. He's a man and he will surely come along with it, without any of your help! You know I think it as you do about Kino and what he did, but it's past now. We can't help it, it's too late! He will come along with it, don't worry. Now let's concentrate on usÉ".
Juan Tomas did not surely stop thinking about his poor brother. He couldn't help it. It was bothering him, as a disease would do. It was the missing and loneliness disease which a brother would attach to you.
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