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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    "Alma" means soul. And for 50 years, Alma Madrigal was the soul of the Encanto, of her family, of the miracle.

    A series of stories dealing with Alma and the widow, leader, victim, mother, grandmother, and human she eventually became.

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    16 Feb 2025

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    more than wonderful

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    “I would go back to Colombia, to the family. If you’d have me.” As Bruno spoke, he became more and more certain of his words. Of course he’d go with her. Bruno would sell the truck, give up his apartment. He’d already decided he’d follow her into hell, after all.

    Final installment of City of Angels. Called back home by Alma’s mysterious illness, Bruno and Mirabel test their relationship against the machinery of the formidable and seemingly perfect Madrigal family.

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    01 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    "The Catholic sacred canopy of the early twentieth century spread out over an enchanted cosmos." From The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II, Chapter 1: Church Life in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    In Azdaema's fantastic "Open Your Eyes," Bruno is introduced as being very religious. He attempted to deal with his unmanageable weird feelings for Mirabel the way his faith had taught him to: by going to Confession.

    Padre Flores' original warning to Abuela Alma triggered the whole family suspecting, and then Mirabel and Bruno admitting their feelings for one another... in front of the whole town. What if they have hope that the Church, and therefore their family and the rest of the Encanto, will eventually allow and accept their marriage, and so work to improve their relationships with the rest of their family, and build new ones with their community, all while trying to avoid creating further scandal?

    Come for the shippy feels, stay for the family and village drama and a look at pre-Vatican II Catholicism in an isolated rural village in one of the world's most Catholic countries.

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    13 Feb 2024

  4. Rec 10

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    Mirabel wakes in a world of dazzling lights and cold people, amid towers that climb impossibly high in the air… a fantastical place called "the Bronx,” in the year of our lord 2023.

    Some things about this place are all too familiar: Abuela’s celestial expectations for the Family Madrigal, the lack of room in the constellation for dimmer stars. Others, like her and Bruno’s permanent banishment are unthinkable. And just what happened between them, that magic would intervene?

    Mirabel must literally walk a mile in her other self’s shoes to untangle the story of the family’s estrangement- or she might never see her own family again.

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    11 Dec 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 28

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       The first time she asks him, she's barely seventeen and – thanks heaven – Dolores is freshly married and currently away and surely minding her own business.
       It's not as this is unexpected, she muses. He must know, by now. He should have long anticipated such an outcome - por el amor de Dios, that's what he does, he foresees things, doesn't he?
      Maybe that's the case, maybe she's right and maybe he knew. Still, he looks exactly like he's about to faint, and that's the only reaction she's going to get from him. Well, that and his discomposed, actual fainting when, a moment later, she tries to kiss him.
       She sighs. She doesn't doubt one day he'll say yes. She just wonders how long he'll have her waiting.

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    12 Oct 2023