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Novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", characters: Petra Cotes is a determined and generous mulatto, lover first of José Arcadio Segundo and then of Aureliano Segundo. They continue to see each other, even after the marriage of Aureliano Segundo, who finally goes to live with her. This embitters his wife, Fernanda del Carpio, for the rest of her life. When Aureliano and Petra make love, their animals improve their fertility and reproduce at an astonishing rate, but their animals die during the deluge that lasts almost five years. Petra makes money by selling raffle tickets, and provides food baskets for Fernanda and her family after Aureliano Segundo's death. Aureliano Segundo and she considered Fernanda "the daughter they never had".
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