La portera

“If I have to clean the stairs, I won’t come back. And that’s what happened… I clean the stairs but I’ve never been back to Monzon.” Palmira is one of Barcelona’s last Porteras. For the past 28 years, she has been plying her trade in a chic building in the Eixample district. In her life, of course, there’s routine, the same gestures, the same jokes, the passage of time, loneliness, but never bitterness. Soon she’ll be out of there like a hermit crab, leaving her old shell behind, with all its dust, to realize her dreams, however simple they may be.

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