Caray, Caray!

Some news: It was so obvious that they are only shooting Génesis from the head up that I prowled around on the TW site until I found the reason - Génesis broke her shoulder.
There was also the rumor that the novela has been extended to 160 episodes, which would take it into March or April. It's definitely running through the end of Feb. Much as I like DB, I think it's time to wrap it up. How long can they drag out the Santos/DB/Marisela thing? IMHO, extending a novela never works.

I've got you beat, novelera, I went to the inauguation on Monday. No ticket. I just stood on the mall near the Washington Monument but I wanted to be a part of history and standing around with two million 'blissed out,' to use Maureen Dowd's term, people was great. The cold was not a problem for me. I have lots of cold weather gear for birdwatching but my feet hurt and still do!

Back to the Arauca-
Not surprisingly, the payback that DB demanded of Marisela is that she refuse the gift of the hacienda. Marisela says that she wants to go far away from here. Santos asks why she changed her mind and Marisela asks him to just respect her decision. Santos won't give up. He wants a reason. We can see Marisela thinking and then she tells him that La Barquereña doesn't exist. DB turned it into El Miedo and her influence is in every corner. Marisela says that she doesn't want anything DB has touched.

Leaving Altamire, DB tells Melquíades that there is a little problem - Lorenzo refuses to return the property transfer document to DB. DB says that she is sure Marisela will keep her promise.

Lorenzo is sure that DB is behind Marisela's decision. Santos returns and Cecilia tells them both that she thinks she knows what happened. A few days ago, DB came to Altamira and spoke to Marisela. Since then, she has been very sad and withdrawn.

Those who are invited to Marisela's birthday party rub it into the faces of those not invited: Mujiquita to Pernalete; Eustaquia to DB.

Santos accuses DB of doing something to keep Marisela from signing the document. He asks what she told Marisela during their conversation. DB denies having a conversation with Marisela and suggests that Marisela is capricious and probably wants to go off somewhere with Gonzalo. While Marisela avoids looking Lorenzo in the eyes and telling him a lie, DB has no problem swearing to Santos that she had nothing to do with Marisela changing her mind about accepting the gift of the hacienda.

Santos admires Marisela in her party outfit and says that he wants to be friends with her like they were before. "My poor Santos," says Marisela, "always thinking about the wellbeing of others, always concerned about everything. You fought so hard to get that woman to give me the hacienda." Santos reminds Marisela that the woman she is referring to is her mother. Marisela says that she will never call her that. Marisela says that DB never changes. Once again, Santos asks Marisela if DB forced her to change her mind about accepting the hacienda. "Why do I have to swear to you about something to do with DB?" says Marisela, "You should believe her above anyone else, including me and if you doubt her, how can you marry her?"

Don Encarnación and Lucía arrive at the party as does Eustaquia with Juan Primito. Juan Primito has his hair all slicked down but is wearing the same overalls as always. I guess he has a new shirt.

DB doesn't like being left alone and considers crashing Marisela's party.

The rebels arrive at the party is ridiculous diguises.

Marisela comes down to the party and dances with Lorenzo.

María Nieves arrives with Federica and Josefa to make Altagracia jealous. He does some very dirty dancing with Federica to the surprise of Gervasia, Melesio and the priest.
Mujiquita and Dr. Arias get an eyeful when Josefa leans over in her short dress to pick up her fan.

Antonio leaves the party when he sees Cecilia with Lorenzo. Lucía follows him.

Santos dances romantically with Marisela until DB arrives at the party and dances with Santos herself. That makes Marisela start to dance with Gonzalo.

Here, Marisela imagines herself dancing alone with Marisela or is Santos imagining that?

Antonio tells Lucía that he does stupid things when he is drunk. She begs him to take her with him when he leaves with the rebels. He refuses. She kisses him and Cecilia sees them.

When Santos asks Marisela to dance with him again, she refuses to leave Gonzalo saying that he is her boyfriend (novio). Santos is impactado.

Wednesday-

The Mondragons and BP crash Marisela's birthday party. At DB's instructions, they provoke a brawl and after Santos stops it, DB tardily orders them to leave and goes back to El Miedo with them, Eustaquia and Juan Primito. Casilda overhears DB telling Melquíades about the plan so soon everyone at Altamira knows.

Josefa recognizes Gonzalo as a fugitive and is going to blackmail Mujiquita for her silence.

Antonio takes leave of his father. Melesio tells him that when he gets his life straightened out, to please return to Altamira. Melesio says that he won't be around forever.

Lorenzo gives numerous farewells: he tells Marisela how proud he is of her; he thanks Santos for giving him some dignity in his last months; he tells Cecilia how happy he is that they had this time together, and he forgives DB for what she did to him and tells her that she won't win and that while he will die in the bosom of his family, she will die alone.

Lorenzo also makes sure that Cecilia has securely hidden the property transfer document. This is obviously going to be important in the future. All Marisela has to do is sign it and El Miedo belongs to her. He leaves a note for Marisela and tells Cecilia that she will know when to give it to Marisela.

Santos returns from the party to El Miedo and he is angry with DB.

DB manages to cajole him to making love to her, however, during which Santos sees Marisela's face instead of DB's. Even though Santos doesn't say anything, DB understands what happened and is devastated.

Marisela says a final goodnight to Lorenzo.

Cecilia makes Lorenzo sleep next to her in her bed.

DB gets a haunting in the middle of the night presumably when Lorenzo dies. He tells her again that she will die alone. The next morning Cecilia finds Lorenzo dead in her bed.

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