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January 29, 2025Day 23 I watch Matilde, her bright fuchsia dressclings to her opulent body—she sets her high-polishedhooked garden knife aside, wiped clean and goes on to the next dahlia tuber Oh, you will be lovely, Matilde sings the words, a bedazzled garden bloomsin the paradise of her mind. She fingers the dahlia's moon-like surfaceand squints as she brings the tuber eye level,...

Matilde, Dahlia Doula January 29, 2025Day 23 I watch Matilde, her bright fuchsia dressclings to her opulent body—she sets her high-polishedhooked garden knife aside, wiped clean and goes on to the next dahlia tuber Oh, …