They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting a strange ache in his chest, an ache he saw reflected in her eyes. Was she feeling what he was feeling?

Pamela Clare
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In the novel "The Time Of Your Life," by Jennifer Weiner, Javier and Maria are in love. They are spending a day on the beach together and they sing a song to each other. It was a song from their childhood. It was also the first time he had sung it to her. The song is called “La Cucaracha” a Spanish folk song that is about a man in love who is in a slow dance in the sand, singing his lost love's name over and over again.

Source: First Strike

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