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¡Viva viernes!     (Long live Friday! In other words, TGIF!)

La fecha es el diecinueve (19) de enero del año dos mil veinticuatro. (The date is January 19, 2024.)

This week we’re dancing to a classic merengue by Dominican legend Sergio Vargas, La Quiero a Morir (I Love Her to Death).

“Y yo que hasta ayer solo fui un holgazán” (And I was only a loafer until yesterday), 

“Y hoy soy el guardián de sus sueños de amor” (And today I’m the guardian of her dreams of love),

“La quiero a morir” (I love her to death).

“Puede destrozar todo aquello que ve” (She can destroy everything that she sees),

“Porque ella de un soplo lo vuelve a crear como si nada” (Because she creates it again with a puff as if nothing).

“Ella para las horas de cada reloj” (She stops the hands of every clock),

“Y me ayuda a pintar transparente el dolor con su sonrisa” (And she helps me to paint pain transparent with her smile),

“Y levanta una torre desde el cielo hasta aqui” (And she raises a tower from the sky to here),

“Y me cose unas alas y me ayuda a subir a toda prisa” (And she sews me some wings and helps me to rise in a hurry).

“Conoce bien, cada guerra, cada herida, cada ser” (She knows well every conflict, every wound, every person),

“Conoce bien cada guerra de la vida, y del amor tambien” (She knows well every conflict of life and of love, too).

¡Bailemos y cantemos! (Let’s dance and sing!) You can sing along to la letra (the lyrics).

¡Que tengas un viernes vivaz!     (May you have a vivacious Friday!)

L. A. Feliz

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