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Tordesillas,
the year of Our Lord 1554.
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She is 74 years old
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and has been locked up in this castle
for almost half a century.
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She has been successively
betrayed by her father,
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by her husband and by her son.
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Daughter of the Catholic Monarchs,
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wife of Philip of Habsburg,
mother of the Emperor Charles V,
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queen in her own right
of Castile and Aragon.
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They call her
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Joan the Mad.
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When I close my eyes,
he approaches me.
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I feel his skin beneath my fingertips.
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His voice flows into my ears.
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I perceive the odor ofhis armpits.
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He arouses my desire.
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I do not fear death.
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No matter what,
it will take me to Philip.
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JOAN THE MAD