Don Juan supposed this was his mother's way of asking-without-asking whether he'd slept with her. He shrugged, nonchalant. "It would be an exceptional woman indeed to rival the architecture of an entire country."

He tried to remember how long he'd been 'reading' this page, to determine whether or not it was time for him to turn the page. Not that he thought his mother was entirely convinced by the charade, anyway.

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