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was originally a project of the director and editor Rafael
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As a young woman, Antonieta married but later left her husband and fell madly in love with the painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano. The painter was married and
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Parisian psychologist, is researching the cases of women who committed suicide in the 20th Century. She becomes fascinated by the story of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer and social activist who committed suicide inside
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