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This wasn’t what Captain Leonilda Lima had expected when she joined the force, this wasn’t the life she wanted but, well, we never get the life we want. Back in the beginning there had been hopes, desires, dreams gradually left by the wayside, projects that came to nothing, but life never turns out like we imagine and the captain, now a little past forty, has known that for a while, even if it doesn’t stop her hankering after what she’s never had.

She’s not exactly pretty. She has a slight squint and her wavy hair never seems to be quite where it should be, but what is a pretty woman, anyway, other than a bundle of ideas and preconceptions? She is beautiful in her own way, with 46her lazy dark eyes and their yellow flecks that gleam like those of a cat, and her somewhat unruly hair which moves as if it has a will of its own. Apart from that, her body is normal, standard size, no obvious defects. In other words, she would be considered pretty or almost pretty if our tastes weren’t conditioned by such unrealistic aesthetic standards.