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Traits:
1. Wise and elderly healer
2. In tune with the elements (tierra, fuego, agua, aire)
3. Is able to see and understand things that people cannot see in themselves

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Traits:
1. Mid-wife
2. Is in love with Rafael but fate rarely allows her a chance
3. Kind, loving, and forgiving

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Traits:
1. Father of Beto Burgos
2. Lost his wife Concha and two of his sons in a bus accident
3. Fisherman day and night,
"Each time he stepped into his boat, he left his heartbreak on the shore" (88)

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Traits:
1 Son of Cèsar Burgos
2. Sullen an uncommunicative since his family's deaths.
3. Blames himself for the bus accident that killed Concha and his two brothers

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Traits:
1. Caretaker for Dona Lina
2. Moody, "Something smoldered inside the girl" (70)
3. Serious and straight forward 14 year old.
4. Raped and abused by her father

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Traits:
1.  41 year-old teacher
2.  "He was a stiff and formal man who had allowed life to pass him by." (65)
3. Meek and obedient towards his mother but strong-willed an confident with Esperanza.

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Traits:
1. Believes El Brujo put a curse on her man, Tito, to make her run off with Tula Fuentes
2. Works as a housekeeper in the hotel where Marta works
3. Steals money from tourists to raise her two children alone

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Traits:
1. Raped Marta on the beach
2. Father of Marta's child
3. Left town and convinced everyone he had not raped her.
“She had told them about Roberto’s suffocating weight, about his hand pressed hard over her mouth. She said all this and more, but her family had not believed the way it truly happened” (56)

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Traits:
1. 16 years old
2. Works as an assistant nurse for Esperanza.
3. Asked El Brujo to put a curse on Chayo's son, making room for Chayo to take care of Marta's child.

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Traits:
1. Alcoholic
2.  70 year old bird-man
3.  Makes money by making his birds do tricks and having Rita pull fortunes out of her beak.

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Traits:
1. Photographer, hopes to release pictures of El Santo without his mask, hopes this will change his life
2.  Not yet 50 years old
3. In love with Lupe Busto
"His thoughts had turned to Lupe and how the sight of her strutting about her eating place was all he needed to feel revived." (26)

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Traits:
1. "Don Gustavo was a large man, soft-muscled but surprisingly quick in manner." (4)
2. Owns the restaurant in which Candelario worked as a salad maker
3. Used to own a glass factory in Talaquepaque but then set up a restaurant in Santiago

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Traits:
1. Husband of Chayo
2. Used to tend bulls in Mexico City but now lives a tranquil life as a serious man with Chayo and later his son Tonito
3. "Since his youth he had found comfort in the special blueness of new mornings" (3)

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Traits:
1. Wife of  Candelario
2. Makes paper flowers and sells them on the beach.
3. Angry at Marta for cursing her child but forgives her after Richard is killed.