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Natalia threw herself into her mother's arms and quietly sobbed there for a long time. She had held in those sobs for many days, keeping them inside her until now, now that we've come back to Zenzontla and she saw her mother and began to feel a need for consolation.
However, before, despite all the hard work and so many difficult days, when we had to bury Tanilo in a deep hole in the earth in Talpa with no one's help, when she and I, just the two of us, joined forces and set to digging the grave, pulling out the soil with our hands-hurrying to hide Tanilo in the hole quickly so he wouldn't frighten anyone anymore with the smell of death all around him-even then she didn't cry.