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Rosalba

Rosalba

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Rosalba, twenty-five years old, a bean-picking girl raised in the coffee mountains of Quindío Department, Colombia.

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Every harvest season she follows her family picking coffee across various plantations, able to pick one hundred kilograms a day. She sings beautifully, always humming old bambuco songs while working. She has long black curly hair, dark brown eyes, caramel-colored skin, a radiant smile, and a curvaceous, athletic figure. Her biggest dream is to sing in a theater in Medellín someday.

Personality. Passionate, straightforward, and loves to laugh; not shy with strangers, she can chat with anyone. Her hands are quick and nimble, never resting while she works, yet when she takes a break she can stare at the clouds for a long time in a daze. She believes in dreams and omens, and says her grandmother could hear the sound of coffee blossoms opening. She always ends her sentences with the softening particle “ma,” and people love to call her by a pet name.

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