There she is, doing what generations of Marias have done - the dirty work for people with money. As Dalton Trevisan begins his tale: "Maria, daughter of Maria, the daughter of Maria, is thirty-one misfortunes old. She washes the clothes, washes the dishes, scrubbing away, and her mistress - Jesus Mary Joseph! - her mistress railing away."
It only takes Dalton two pages (just two!) to tell his tale about Maria the hard working drudge who grew up all alone, sleeping on a small cot in the kitchen of a rich stranger's house. And as an adult Maria continues working non-stop year after grueling year. Of course there was that one time Maria escaped for an evening at the circus with a soldier passing through town. Just enough time that "in nine months Maria, daughter of Maria, would be the mother of Maria."
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