Pretty to Think So

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Enrique Fernández. Pretty to Think So

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Pretty to Think So

Think So

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My yes, yes would only have echoed that other literary hero of my youth, who dared assume a woman’s inner voice to craft the most famous book ending of his century. A man saying what a man wants a woman to say. Yes? No?

No, Margarita Cansino, my beautiful Latina remade into Rita Hayworth, would say. No, because I’m not even Rita, never mind Gilda. Beautiful Rita blamed her failed relationships on the fact that men wanted Gilda and they got Margarita instead. Who can blame them? Even before she puts the blame on Mame, in her very first close-up, when she flings up her mane—dyed red, her brows shaped to give her forehead a better proportion—Gilda is the woman a man wants. It doesn’t matter that Gilda, like all the femmes fatales, will be no good for a man. The man wants her. I want her. I wanted my Gilda, my poet’s muse. I wanted to dance with the girl with a hole in her sweater. And she was only there for the squeeze.

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