You will understand why, against the backdrop of the bleak situation in Spain (as of today, we have 64,000 confirmed cases, with nearly 13,000 in Catalonia), Franky and I felt a stab of fear when, on March 17, María, aged 71, said that she had a slight fever. Only 1 or 2 degrees. At first, she chalked it up to a slight flu, said it was nothing major, and remained in her characteristic high spirits. At that point, María said that her only complaint was the fact that she could not drink her noontime beer due to the fact that she was ill.

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