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The first time I do it I am frozen to death and the oracle responds: "I feel the heat of all my skin on my body again." After a while I feel better. Then Dai clarified to me that it is the first verse of an old song, a hit by Rata Blanca, which says "I feel the heat of all your skin...". Corrective Oracle. 8. The house will be called La Yuca , that tuber that I learned to harvest, cook and eat in the Peruvian jungle. What grows hidden beneath the earth, a root that can be poisonous or the basic sustenance of so many people.

The first fire that my son and I made in this house Phone Number List with a wooden box from one of the Bolivian greengrocers in the area. That box, La Yuca, that fire gave us the name. Otilia lived in this house her entire life, from the time it was built in 1934 until she died in September 2020. When I arrived I asked her permission to live there. I think you agree, because I sleep peacefully. The second day after arriving, I (we felt) a penetrating smell of cat pee on the dining room floor, in a very precise corner near the front door.



 There are no cats in this house... not a chance that any cat had been there recently. I could only think of some Otilia cat that persisted there in some way marking the territory. Several weeks later, I saw her. A yellow, stray cat, one of those that freely inhabits the roofs of Buenos Aires. She was on the party wall, pressing her body against the fence that separates one house from the other. I teased her, I called her. She didn't flinch, didn't even bother to make eye contact with me.