Azucena scene 39 '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

** Ella mira acá y allá a sus reflexiones, viendo
que bonita es su cara, que tan adorable es ella. **

** She looks this way and that at her own reflections,
seeing how pretty her face is, how adorable she is! **

** Ahora, ella estaba afuera de la casa donde su padre
la golpeaba y a su madre y los hermanos, con un lazo. **

** Now, she was out of her parents house where her father
would beat her and her mother and brothers with a rope.**

** - recordaba como cuando era una nina pequeña,
ella se escondia para que él no la encontrara. **

** - remembering when she was a small girl,
she would hide so he could not find her. **

** Está cepillándose el pelo, peinándolo hacia fuera; la canción del
radio suena; Una banda norteña canta la historia de un amor perdido. **

** She is brushing her hair, combing it out; the radio song sounds;
a hot Norteño band delivers the plaintive lyrics of a lost love. **

** Azucena ha entrado en trance con la canción de amor parece ir adentro;
esta sentada alli, cepillándose el pelo; Arturo sigue durmiendo. **

** Azucena who has been entranced by the love song seems to go deeper;
she is sitting there, brushing her hair as Arturo is still sleeping. **

** Mas allá de si misma, en el espejo ella puede ver a él en la cama;
es la misma canción que ella siempre cantaba cuando lava la ropa. **

** Beyond her own image in the mirror, she sees Arturo on the bed;
it is the same song she had once sung as she washed the clothes. **

** La canción termina, por un momento hay silencio, el presentador
de la estación lee unos anuncios comerciales de Iguala, Guerrero. **

** The song ends, for a moment there is silence, then a radio station
announcer reads out some commercial announcements of Iguala Guerrero. **

** Ella no tenía idea de que tal felicidad existiera! Su propia felicidad
era tanta que estaba pensaba: 'ahora si, he vivido, y he tenido amor.? **

** She had no idea that such happiness could exist! Her own happiness
was so much she thought to herself: "now I have lived, and had love.? **

IN SCENE ONE, AZUCENA IS WASHING THE CLOTHES IN THE PATIO OF HER FAMILY'S HOUSE
LISTENING TO A RADIO LOVE SONG. HER EXPERIENCE IS AGAIN, IMMEDIATE. IN THIS SCENE
SHE IS ''NOT'' REFELCTING ON SEX WHEN SHE SAYS TO HERSELF THAT SHE HAS "HAD LOVE"