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[first lines]
Young Gabriela: Mommy, is this the house from Hansel and Gretel?
Young Gabriela's Mother: Yes, Gabriela.
Young Gabriela: Where's the witch?
[gunshots outside]
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Gabriela: Do they talk?
Paul Guell: What?
Gabriela: The heads.
Paul Guell: What do you mean?
Gabriela: When you cut them...
Paul Guell: No. It's the face. It's in their eyes.
Gabriela: Yes, but after that. Sometimes the head says some words?
Paul Guell: The head - doesn't - no. No.
Gabriela: They're supposed to talk...
Paul Guell: They don't, o...
[gaining composure]
Paul Guell: They don't. I know, okay? They don't.
Gabriela: I think they talk. They could tell you something.
Caridad Ravelo
Extended Reading
