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And yet, her hand was trembling.

Her bookshelf—if you could call three stacked suitcases a bookshelf—held over fifty novels, each one frozen at a specific time and place. One Hundred Years of Solitude held the maple leaf. The House on Mango Street held the metro ticket. Love in the Time of Cholera held the beer coaster, slightly stained.

She turned the photo over. On the other side, in her own handwriting, she had written a single line: mis marcadores moviles

She called them mis marcadores móviles —my mobile bookmarks.

She checked the date on her phone. October 12th. The leaves were falling right now. And yet, her hand was trembling

She moved apartments every ten months. She changed jobs every spring. She ended relationships just as the leaves began to fall. People called her flighty. She called it curiosity .

But there was one thing Sofía collected everywhere she went: bookmarks. The House on Mango Street held the metro ticket

“Volveré cuando las hojas caigan.” — I will return when the leaves fall.