you can't always get what you want...

...pero a veces te dan tacos Claude Benard para tu cumple. Llegados de una mano traidora, estos fueron difíciles de aceptar: caballitos regalados, para que no me olvide lo que me costó confiar y ser digna de confianza.

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...but sometimes you get Claude Benard heels for your birthday. Because they were given by a traitorous hand, it took me ages to allow these little gift horses into my closet: reminders of how much I struggled to trust & be trustworthy.