Dr. Urbino and Phantom Limbs

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She [Fermina Daza] could not avoid a profound feeling of rancor toward her husband [Dr. Juvenal Urbino] for having left her alone in the middle of the ocean. Everything of his made her cry: ... ... At every moment countless ordinary questions would come to mind that he alone could answer for her. Once he had told her something that she could not imagine: that amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches, in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was. [Love in the Time of Cholera, Garcia Marquez]