Don't rush Trafalgar Medrano when he starts telling you about his latest intergalactic sales trip. He likes to stretch things out over precisely seven coffees. No one knows whether he actu-ally travels to the stars, but he tells the best tall tales in the city, so why doubt him?

By the light of the chaste electronic moon --
The sense of the circle --
Of navigators --
The best day of the year --
The González family's fight for a better world --
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Interval with my aunts. Trafalgar and Josefina. --
End of the interval --
Mr. Chaos --
Constancia --
Strelitzias, Lagerstroemias, and Gypsophila --
Trafalgar and I