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As the bride remembers her relationship with the boy with the short boots on her wedding day, it is inferred that their love was not real and her pregnancy with him possibly ended in an abortion. This is foreshadowed as the girl smelled blood and death in their relationship, which hinted towards the heartbreak and bad ending of their “love”. To get over this emotional heartbreak, her older brother gave her a stuffed lizard as a sign of support and brotherly love, which portrays the ultimate symbol of love and kinship. However, when the lizard looked deformed on the day of the wedding (possibly due to someone kicking or mistreating it), there appears to be some connection between the deformed lizard and the man with the short boots. As the girl remembers her heartbreak and disastrous relationship with the man, which is represented as the deformed lizard, the younger brother of the man calms her down by gently petting the lizard until its face returns back to normal. This compassionate act of the younger brother demonstrates brotherly love as well. It is suspected that the man with the short boots was the culprit behind deforming the bride and her brother’s symbol of brotherly love, the lizard. Thus, the younger brother took responsibility of his brother’s actions towards the girl by restoring the lizard back to its previous form. This poetic allusion of an act of brotherly love saving another’s form of brotherly love demonstrates the true power of the love shared between family. Throughout the cuento, the theme of a brother’s love is demonstrated to ultimately surpass romantic attraction, as it is represented as one of the most truest and purest forms of love. While it is ambiguous which siblings the title is referring to, the main theme of brotherly love can be seen in both the girl and her older brother and the boy with the short boots and his younger brother.