I think my strategy of showing up when other people clearly know better is a good one when I only have to apologize for bumping someone or something about a dozen times, and I get to the register and find no line! I mean no line at all. This place is usually a Lite-FM mosh pit and navigating the aisles with a small cart requires great tenacity. Then showered and got into my car in pouring rain, which was still pouring when I got out and picked a soaking-wet carriage which remained soaking wet the whole time I was dropping vegetables into it, so it was like being in the shower with real raspberries and honeydews and bags I can't open. If I had a watch, I'd have tapped it impatiently. Since I don't sleep, work is many things but not on Sundays and I didn't happen to go hog-wild Saturday night, on Sunday morning, I hemmed. The key to my hating less the shopping nightmare is to go when the other humans are distracted by something else, like sleep, work and hangovers. It is a small thing but the world is now different by the power of one person, basil and joy. Suppose I plant basil in my kitchen and to my great joy my home is perfumed with the sweet earthiness of growing plants and the verdant sensuality of living basil. It is possible to regard each day as a chance to change the world. Every day, I suppose Mom and Grandpa bicker, three of my sisters and my brother look into the eyes of their small children and see the past and future without seeing that instant every day, Siobhan and I compare notes in person, over the phone or via email. Time is passing not just for me but for others as well, which I often foolishly forget. I'm making a concerted effort to take pictures of Larry, the little black cat bent on stealing your soul. So this evening, I noticed the rustle emanating from this new location and grabbed the disposable camera instead of the cleaver. He's also dragged tissue behind the futon so when My Little Predator is on the crunchy prowl in the wee hours I'm not dialing 911 and searching my apartment with a big, big knife. When I hear mild crunching, I can't see the source but neither do I expect to. With the incoming New Year's Eve Special, which will also be the first Special to be broadcast live, María and Pablo are trapped at crossroads: he's between following his father's way or his own she weighs going back to Rome with Massimiliano against following her dreams of dance and freedom.He drags tissue paper to the black sheepskin on the zebra print couch. At the same time, Celedonio forces TVE's staff to choose his son as new censor, betraying Pablo when Celedonio imposes the condition to continue working as a counselor for his son. With their relationship in danger, Massimiliano finds and reunites with María, who feels confused about her feelings for Pablo. Taking revenge on Pablo after knowing about his relationship with María, Chimo shows her the censor's office, where she discovers that Pablo is Celedonio's son and will be the new censor when his father retires-but it was Pablo himself who actually censored her, on his father's advice.
While Amparo's relationship with Lucas sours, María's dream of making her first appearance on TV is shattered after seeing she's been considerably censored. Then Massimiliano appears in Madrid looking for María, trying to win her back. Unfamiliar with the Francoist Regime and its repressive laws, María tries to adjust to it, although she thinks it's outdated. However, troubles appear by three: Rosa mistrusts María and places her as a possible substitute in case one of the other dancers is absent, and Pablo's father Celedonio is TVE's censor, an old-fashioned man stuck in the early days of Franco's dictatorship, who rejects any kind of modernity and freedom in TV and who wants to fire Chimo. When Chimo locates María, he convinces her to participate in the show. There she meets Chimo, a womanizing producer determined to turn María into a star as one of the dancers in the famous late show "Las Noches de Rosa." Returning to her work at the airport, at the last moment she meets Pablo and gives him his suitcase and her phone number, which leads to a double date with Amparo and Lucas. After he gives her his work address, the suitcase is found and María takes it to return to Pablo, surprised to learn that he works in TVE (Televisión Española, a Spanish TV channel back then). Three months later María is living with Amparo, also working as a flight attendant in Barajas, when she meets again Pablo, now looking for a lost suitcase. An orphan without family, money, or resources, at her arrival to the Aiport of Barajas in the City of Madrid, María meets Amparo, a funny, loudmouthed, vivacious, free-spirited woman who works as a flight attendant. In 1973, after leaving her boyfriend Massimiliano at the altar in Rome, María decides to make a new start taking a return flight to Spain.