A deaf farmer marries an obese girl for a bet; what she pulled out of her husband’s ear left everyone stunned." The morning that Clara Valdés became a wife, the snow fell on the Sierra de Chihuahua with sad patience, as if the sky itself knew that it was not a holiday, but of resignation".

She wrote with a firm hand:
“There’s something inside your ear. Let me get it out.”
He denied with violence. He took the notebook from him and wrote:
“It’s dangerous.”
Clara took the pencil and replied:
“It’s more dangerous to leave it there. Do you trust me?”
Elijah held her with his gaze for a few eternal seconds. Then, very slowly, he nodded.
Clara worked with her pulse shaking, but the decision stuck in her chest. He introduced the tweezers little by little, while he was clinging to the edge of the table until he became white. He felt resistance. Then a pull. And suddenly, something came out writhing between the metal.

… lo que ella le sacó del oído a su esposo dejó a todos atónitos.

La mañana en que Clara Valdés se convirtió en esposa, la nieve caía sobre la sierra de Chihuahua con una paciencia triste, como