Chapter 9 The Silver Goblet Spring came, and with it the daily sameness. It was the year 1983, and Fidel Castro had awoken in a particular happy mood, one cool April morning. It was thanks to his general good disposition that the rationing got a little bit loose. The Cubans were finally allowed to fatten a little. The market was flooded with chicken. Irina was the first to go to the chicken lines. After getting a couple of chickens. While there, she negotiated with a farmer for the purchase of one little piglet. She had the intentioned of fattening it....

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