![]() ![]() He had approached her to ask if he could store some boxes of books in her home. ![]() As she embroiders linens for wealthy clients, and sings along with her favourite golden oldies on the radio, she dreams of Carlos, the handsome young student she met at the local store. ![]() Our heroine, a balding, drag-queen in her forties bearing the ravages of a rough life, is at last settled. Boxes festooned with fabrics, ribbons and dramatic imagination stand in for the finest furniture. Her dilapidated dwelling is decorated in style. ![]() It was no bigger than a dovecote with three walls and a railing that was just wide enough for the Queen of the Corner-her hands moving as if playing on a marimba-to hang the sheets, tablecloths, and underpants out to dry. From there could be seen the city in the shadows crowned with a turbid veil of dust. the scrawny house on the corner, three stories high with a staircase like a backbone leading to the room on the rooftop. The setting is a lower-class neighbourhood where years of unemployment have taken a toll, buildings stand in disrepair, and a certain aging princess has found a castle to call her own: It has been another year of blackouts, street violence and police brutality. September, 1986-spring in Santiago and rumours that the Dictator’s days are numbered are stirring the spirits of the determined, young idealistic members of the resistance. ![]()
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