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Twelve Plates and a Sixty-Year-Old Apology

Doce platos y una disculpa de sesenta años

Behind a kitchen cabinet in Madrid: one dusty box, twelve shattered wedding plates, and an apology written in 1963 that was never delivered. Gonzalo has three days to glue history back together before his landlady arrives with the eviction papers.

Part 2 of 2 in The Polite Poltergeist of Calle Olmo

A las dos de la madrugada, Gonzalo abrió el hueco de la pared con un destornillador. Detrás del armario de cristal encontró una caja de madera llena de polvo. Dentro había cientos de pedazos de porcelana pintada a mano y un sobre amarillo: «Para doña Amparo.

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