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SOPHIE CARAX NEVER IMAGINED THAT YEARS LATER SHE WOULD SEE Ricardo again (a mature man by now, heading up the family empire, and a father of two), nor that he would return to meet the boy he had wished to erase with five hundred pesetas.
"Perhaps it's because I'm growing old," he explained, "but I want to get to know this kid and give him the opportunities in life that a son of my flesh and blood deserves. It had not crossed my mind to think of him in all these years, and now, strangely enough, I'm unable to think of anything else."