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Adi opened the door and had to push hard to make her way inside. She hadn’t had time to tidy up last night and then forgot all about the state of her room. There were clothes everywhere, littering her bed, the chair, the floor. She looked around and swore. As much as she disliked cleaning, she hated this mess even more. Grunting in protest, she paired her iPhone with a speaker and picked a playlist.
While she waited for the music to load, she picked up some shoes that hadn’t made the cut last night. The electric guitar began picking out notes and, she closed her eyes for a moment. Celia Cruz picked up the rhythm with her strange voice, eerily reminiscent of a brass instrument. This version of “Guantanamera” carried a melancholy, underlined by Wyclef Jean’s patois rap, that got her eve
