Cuento originalmente publicado en La furia (1959). "Las supersticiones no dejaban vivir a Cristina. Una moneda con la efigie borrada, una mancha de tinta, la luna vista a través de dos vidrios, las iniciales de su nombre grabadas por azar sobre el tronco de un cedro la enloquecían de temor. Cuando nos conocimos llevaba puesto un vestido verde, que siguió usando hasta que se rompió, pues me dijo que le traía suerte y que en cuanto se ponía otro, azul, que le sentaba mejor, no nos veíamos".
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Silvina Ocampo Aguirre was a poet and short-fiction writer. Ocampo was the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo, the publisher of the literarily important Argentine magazine Sur. Silvina was educated at home by tutors, and later studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico. She was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares, whose lover she became (1933) when Bioy was 19. They were married in 1940. In 1954 she adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman, Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) who was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death.
