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** The poor Candida Eréndira, who is forced to prostitute herself by her own grandmother after an accident which led to their home burning down. Her story only gets fleshed out in Gabriel García Márquez's short story collection The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother.

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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters' nicknames is {{Meme|ticMutation}}. It's pronounced differently, but it still looks hilarious on text.
** Ironically, the pronunciation of the two words are the same in the original Spanish.



* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters' nicknames is {{Meme|ticMutation}}. It's pronounced differently in English, but it still looks hilarious on text. Ironically, the pronunciation of the two words are the same in the original Spanish.



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*ValuesDissonance: Among other things, such as Colonel Aureliano Buendia marrying the literal child that is Remedios, the Romani characters are referred to exclusively as gypsies, which is nowadays considered an outright slur.
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** Ironically, the pronunciation of the two words are the same in the original Spanish.
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* OneSceneWonder: One of the book's greatest strengths is how characters who appear for just a few pages manage to make a lasting impact. Of note is Camila "The Elephant" Sagastume, a BigBeautifulWoman who only appears for a few paragraphs to challenge Aureliano Segundo to an eating contest, then disappears from the narrative.

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* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffered from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and could no longer write]] near the end of his life makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.
* MemeticMutation: "Cease, cows! Life is short!"

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* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffered from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and could no longer write]] write near the end of his life makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.
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"Cease, cows! Life is short!"



-> "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
* {{Squick}}: The novel has some ''[[SarcasmMode pleasant]]'' things in it.

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-> --> "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
* {{Squick}}: The novel has some ''[[SarcasmMode pleasant]]'' things in it.{{Squick}}:



*** The ants come into play again when it's revealed [[spoiler:that the last Aureliano [[DeathByAThousandCuts died from]] [[EatenAlive being devoured]] by them.]]
* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BelligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless. [[TearJerker/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude Has it's own page now.]]

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*** ** The ants come into play again when it's revealed [[spoiler:that the last Aureliano [[DeathByAThousandCuts died from]] [[EatenAlive being devoured]] by them.]]
* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BelligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless. [[TearJerker/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude Has it's own page now.]]
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-> "As he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

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-> "As "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
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-> "As he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

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-> "As he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
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-> "As he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when father took him to discover ice."

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-> "As he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
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-> "As he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when father took him to discover ice."
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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters nicknames is {{Meme|ticMutation}}. It's pronounced differently, but it still looks hilarious on text.

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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters characters' nicknames is {{Meme|ticMutation}}. It's pronounced differently, but it still looks hilarious on text.
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* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BelligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless. [[TearJerker/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude has it's own page now.]]

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* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BelligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless. [[TearJerker/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude has Has it's own page now.]]
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* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BelligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless.

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* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BelligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless. [[TearJerker/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude has it's own page now.]]
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** Rebeca has a habit eating dirt and whitewash. Even when the Buendias have broke this habit of hers, she still occasionally falls back into it when she's ''very'' emotionally stressed.

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** Rebeca has a habit eating dirt and whitewash. Even when the Buendias have broke broken this habit of hers, she still occasionally falls back into it when she's ''very'' emotionally stressed.
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** Aureliano [[spoiler:Babilonia]] and Amaranta passionately [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces make love in whichever room they can find]] [[FanDisservice ...all while ants slowly destroy their house and even cause their lives to be endangered at one point.]]

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** Aureliano [[spoiler:Babilonia]] and Amaranta passionately [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces make love in whichever room they can find]] [[FanDisservice ...all while ants slowly destroy their house and even cause house, causing their lives to be endangered at one point.point in their lovemaking.]]
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** Aureliano [[spoiler:Babilonia]] and Amaranta passionately [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces make love in whichever room they can find]] [[FanDisservice ...all awhile ants slowly destroy their house and even cause their lives to be endangered at one point.]]

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** Aureliano [[spoiler:Babilonia]] and Amaranta passionately [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces make love in whichever room they can find]] [[FanDisservice ...all awhile while ants slowly destroy their house and even cause their lives to be endangered at one point.]]
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** Colonel Aureliano Buendia marries Remedios, [[WifeHusbandry ''who is a little girl.'']] Sure, she's WiseBeyondHerYears, but that doesn't change the fact that [[OldManMarryingAChild she was a child when she married the much older Colonel.]]

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** Colonel Aureliano Buendia marries Remedios, [[WifeHusbandry ''who ''[[WifeHusbandry who is a little girl.'']] ]]'' Sure, she's WiseBeyondHerYears, but that doesn't change the fact that [[OldManMarryingAChild she was a child when she married the much older Colonel.]]
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** It'S mentioned that Úrsula's fear of consummating her marriage to her [[KissingCousins cousin/husband José Arcadio Buendia]] was caused by her learning how inbreeding in the family led to its members giving birth to ''iguanas''

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** It'S It's mentioned that Úrsula's fear of consummating her marriage to her [[KissingCousins cousin/husband José Arcadio Buendia]] was caused by her learning how inbreeding in the family led to its members giving birth to ''iguanas''

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* {{Squick}}: The novel has a bunch of this
** It'S mentioned that Úrsula's fear of consummating her marriage to her [[KissingCousin cousin/husband José Arcadio Buendia]] was caused by her learning how inbreeding in the family led to its members giving birth to ''iguanas''

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* {{Squick}}: The novel has a bunch of this
some ''[[SarcasmMode pleasant]]'' things in it.
** It'S mentioned that Úrsula's fear of consummating her marriage to her [[KissingCousin [[KissingCousins cousin/husband José Arcadio Buendia]] was caused by her learning how inbreeding in the family led to its members giving birth to ''iguanas''''iguanas''
** Rebeca has a habit eating dirt and whitewash. Even when the Buendias have broke this habit of hers, she still occasionally falls back into it when she's ''very'' emotionally stressed.



* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BeligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless.

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** Aureliano [[spoiler:Babilonia]] and Amaranta passionately [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces make love in whichever room they can find]] [[FanDisservice ...all awhile ants slowly destroy their house and even cause their lives to be endangered at one point.]]
*** The ants come into play again when it's revealed [[spoiler:that the last Aureliano [[DeathByAThousandCuts died from]] [[EatenAlive being devoured]] by them.]]
* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BeligerentSexualTension [[BelligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless.
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* NightmareFuel: Full of this stuff, especially towards the end [[spoiler: like Ursula shrinking to the size of a fetus, and the last Buendia baby being eaten by ants]].

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* NightmareFuel: Full of this stuff, especially towards the end [[spoiler: like Ursula shrinking to the size of a fetus, and the last Buendia baby being eaten by ants]].ants]].
* {{Squick}}: The novel has a bunch of this
** It'S mentioned that Úrsula's fear of consummating her marriage to her [[KissingCousin cousin/husband José Arcadio Buendia]] was caused by her learning how inbreeding in the family led to its members giving birth to ''iguanas''
** Colonel Aureliano Buendia marries Remedios, [[WifeHusbandry ''who is a little girl.'']] Sure, she's WiseBeyondHerYears, but that doesn't change the fact that [[OldManMarryingAChild she was a child when she married the much older Colonel.]]
* TearJerker: It's clear, despite how [[BeligerentSexualTension rocky it seems at first,]] that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mauricio]] and Meme's relationship was a passionately loving one. So, when [[ControlFreak Fernanda]] forcefully puts an end to it, it's heartbreaking to witness [[BrokenBird Meme's]] clear trauma and change into TheVoiceless.

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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters nicknames is [[MemeticMutation Meme]]. It's pronounced differently, but it still looks hilarious on text.
* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that GabrielGarciaMarquez [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffered from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and could no longer write]] near the end of his life makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.

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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters nicknames is [[MemeticMutation Meme]].{{Meme|ticMutation}}. It's pronounced differently, but it still looks hilarious on text.
* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that GabrielGarciaMarquez Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffered from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and could no longer write]] near the end of his life makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.



* NightmareFuel: Full of this stuff, especially towards the end [[spoiler: like Ursula shrinking to the size of a fetus, and the last Buendia baby being eaten by ants]].
* PuritySue: Little Remedios Moscote could be considered one of these. On one hand, she gets a lot of talk of how fantastic she is in her time. On the other, she's not mentioned ''that'' much afterwards.
** So could [[HelloNurse impossibly-beautiful]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness impossibly-pure]] Remedios the Beauty [[spoiler: before her disappearance, after which it's noted that some of the family forgot about her a bit too quickly]].
*** In this case, her impossible beauty was a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse bad thing]], distracting all of the men and driving them crazy.
*** It was a little worse than driving them crazy. A man is at one point described to fall and smash his head in while spying on her. The blood that seeps from his smashed skull is not blood at all - [[NightmareFuel it is perfume that smells like Remedios the Beauty]].
*** Not to mention, Remedios's own family save for Colonel Aureliano considered her completely useless [[ManChild because she was just as childish and "stupid" as she was beautiful]]. So yeah, she was flawed and people acknowledged that.

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* NightmareFuel: Full of this stuff, especially towards the end [[spoiler: like Ursula shrinking to the size of a fetus, and the last Buendia baby being eaten by ants]].
* PuritySue: Little Remedios Moscote could be considered one of these. On one hand, she gets a lot of talk of how fantastic she is in her time. On the other, she's not mentioned ''that'' much afterwards.
** So could [[HelloNurse impossibly-beautiful]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness impossibly-pure]] Remedios the Beauty [[spoiler: before her disappearance, after which it's noted that some of the family forgot about her a bit too quickly]].
*** In this case, her impossible beauty was a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse bad thing]], distracting all of the men and driving them crazy.
*** It was a little worse than driving them crazy. A man is at one point described to fall and smash his head in while spying on her. The blood that seeps from his smashed skull is not blood at all - [[NightmareFuel it is perfume that smells like Remedios the Beauty]].
*** Not to mention, Remedios's own family save for Colonel Aureliano considered her completely useless [[ManChild because she was just as childish and "stupid" as she was beautiful]]. So yeah, she was flawed and people acknowledged that.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that GabrielGarciaMarquez [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffered from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and can no longer write]] makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.

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* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that GabrielGarciaMarquez [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffered from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and can could no longer write]] near the end of his life makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.
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he\'s passed away


* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that GabrielGarciaMarquez is [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffering from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and can no longer write]] makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.

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* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that GabrielGarciaMarquez is [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffering suffered from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and can no longer write]] makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.
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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters nicknames is [[MemeticMutation Meme]]

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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters nicknames is [[MemeticMutation Meme]]Meme]]. It's pronounced differently, but it still looks hilarious on text.
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*** Not to mention, Remedios's own family save for Colonel Aureliano considered her completely useless [[AdultChild because she was just as childish and "stupid" as she was beautiful]]. So yeah, she was flawed and people acknowledged that.

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*** Not to mention, Remedios's own family save for Colonel Aureliano considered her completely useless [[AdultChild [[ManChild because she was just as childish and "stupid" as she was beautiful]]. So yeah, she was flawed and people acknowledged that.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Full of this stuff, especially towards the end [[spoiler: like Ursula shrinking to the size of a fetus, and the last Buendia baby being eaten by ants]].


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* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that GabrielGarciaMarquez is [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffering from senile dementia]] [[TearJerker and can no longer write]] makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.



*** Not to mention, Remedios's own family save for Colonel Aureliano considered her completely useless [[AdultChild because she was just as childish and "stupid" as she was beautiful]]. So yeah, she was flawed and people aknowledged that.

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*** It was a little worse than driving them crazy. A man is at one point described to fall and smash his head in while spying on her. The blood that seeps from his smashed skull is not blood at all - [[NightmareFuel it is perfume that smells like Remedios the Beauty]].
*** Not to mention, Remedios's own family save for Colonel Aureliano considered her completely useless [[AdultChild because she was just as childish and "stupid" as she was beautiful]]. So yeah, she was flawed and people aknowledged that.
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* YourMileageMayVary: Either it is a marvelously deep work of magical realism, or it is a pedantic drear-a-thon that accomplishes nothing.
** [[spoiler: Which is kind of the point if you follow the "you can't stop destiny" interpretation of the story]].

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* YourMileageMayVary: Either it is a marvelously deep work of magical realism, or it is a pedantic drear-a-thon that accomplishes nothing.
** [[spoiler: Which is kind of the point if you follow the "you can't stop destiny" interpretation of the story]].

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* CanonSue: Little Remedios Moscote could be considered one of these. On one hand, she gets a lot of talk of how fantastic she is in her time. On the other, she's not mentioned ''that'' much afterwards.
** So could [[HelloNurse impossibly-beautiful]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness impossibly-pure]] Remedios the Beauty [[spoiler: before her disappearance, after which it's noted that some of the family forgot about her a bit too quickly]].
*** In this case, her impossible beauty was a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse bad thing]], distracting all of the men and driving them crazy.


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* PuritySue: Little Remedios Moscote could be considered one of these. On one hand, she gets a lot of talk of how fantastic she is in her time. On the other, she's not mentioned ''that'' much afterwards.
** So could [[HelloNurse impossibly-beautiful]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness impossibly-pure]] Remedios the Beauty [[spoiler: before her disappearance, after which it's noted that some of the family forgot about her a bit too quickly]].
*** In this case, her impossible beauty was a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse bad thing]], distracting all of the men and driving them crazy.
*** Not to mention, Remedios's own family save for Colonel Aureliano considered her completely useless [[AdultChild because she was just as childish and "stupid" as she was beautiful]]. So yeah, she was flawed and people aknowledged that.

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