that Petra Cotes is disgusted with the "low-life sickness" he has given her and consequently refuses to see him. José Arcadio Segundo never finds out that his brother had shared Petra Cotes with him. Aureliano Segundo secretly is cured of his sickness separately from José Arcadio. He begs forgiveness from Petra Cotes and once they live with each other, their animals begin to proliferate at an alarming rate. A fortune is made by selling the extra animals and through raffles.
             Aureliano takes advantage of his shared physical appearance with his brother in order to sleep with a woman. Furthermore, he neither informs his brother, nor the woman he "loves" that there he is a third party in the relationship. An interesting element of the passage involves Petra Cotes' name. Aureliano Segundo describes the entire situation and after the line "Aureliano Segundo obtained her pardon and stayed with her
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