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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Valle, Aurora, Paulina entitled Portrait in Sepia.
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conversations.value: Portrait in Sepia: Portrait in Sepia is the sequel to Daughter of Fortune and follows the story of Aurora del Valle, the granddaughter of Eliza Sommers (Hija de la fortuna).\nThe daughter of Lynn Sommers (the daughter of Eliza and Tao Chi'en) and Matías Rodríguez de Santa Cruz (son of Paulina del Valle and Feliciano Rodríguez de Santa Cruz) has no memory of the first five years of her life.\nShe has recurring nightmares of men in black pyjamas looming around her and losing the grip on the hand of someone beloved.\nLynn died giving birth to Aurora, known also by her Chinese name Lai Ming, in Chinatown, San Francisco, while Aurora's biological father never acknowledged that he had a child until the end of his life; he died a slow and agonizing death of syphilis.\nAfter Lynn's death, Aurora's maternal grandparents raised her until the death of Tao Chi'en.\nAfter these events, Eliza approaches Paulina to raise Aurora while Eliza goes to China to bury Tao's body.\nPaulina makes Eliza agree to cut all contact with Aurora so that she will not become too attached to the girl only to have her taken away later on in life.\nSo, Paulina del Valle tries to hide Aurora's true origins.\nNevertheless, when Aurora talks to her real father, Matías, he tells the truth about her past.\nIn this first part, the writer also describes the War of the Pacific in which Severo del Valle is involved as a soldier.\nThe description of the war is very cruel; this can be seen in the scene where Severo del Valle loses his leg to gangrene.\nThe second part is about the transition of Aurora's childhood into adulthood.\nShe learns to be a photographer and becomes an expert artist in the field of photography.\nThe family moves from San Francisco to Chile and Frederick Williams becomes Paulina's husband, so that he will be accepted in Chilean society.\nEveryone there sees him as a true English lord, but no one knows that his origins are not noble.\nAllende also describes a civil war which affects them directly, as well as the way in which Paulina del Valle endlessly creates new businesses such as growing French wine and selling cheese, in Chile.\nThe Del Valle family then travels to Europe because Paulina has a tumor and needs an operation.\nThe operation is successful and Paulina becomes healthy and strong once more.\nShe is more than 70 years old, but does not show signs of being tired, ill or soft; she imposes her will on her body and thus continues to rule the family as a matriarch.\nThus, the novel is divided into three parts plus an epilogue.\nThe first part describes Aurora's infancy and family members, and in the second part, Aurora's life comes more into play.\nThe third part is where Aurora grows up, becoming a photographer, marrying Diego Domínguez and eventually leaving him.\nShe takes a lover, dr Ivan Radovic, and their relationship is explained more fully in the epilogue.\nIn the end, the mystery of Tao Chi'en's death is revealed and it plays an important role.
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conversations.value: Portrait in Sepia: Portrait in Sepia is the sequel to Daughter of Fortune and follows the story of Aurora del Valle, the granddaughter of Eliza Sommers (Hija de la fortuna).\nThe daughter of Lynn Sommers (the daughter of Eliza and Tao Chi'en) and Matías Rodríguez de Santa Cruz (son of Paulina del Valle and Feliciano Rodríguez de Santa Cruz) has no memory of the first five years of her life.\nShe has recurring nightmares of men in black pyjamas looming around her and losing the grip on the hand of someone beloved.\nLynn died giving birth to Aurora, known also by her Chinese name Lai Ming, in Chinatown, San Francisco, while Aurora's biological father never acknowledged that he had a child until the end of his life; he died a slow and agonizing death of syphilis.\nAfter Lynn's death, Aurora's maternal grandparents raised her until the death of Tao Chi'en.\nAfter these events, Eliza approaches Paulina to raise Aurora while Eliza goes to China to bury Tao's body.\nPaulina makes Eliza agree to cut all contact with Aurora so that she will not become too attached to the girl only to have her taken away later on in life.\nSo, Paulina del Valle tries to hide Aurora's true origins.\nNevertheless, when Aurora talks to her real father, Matías, he tells the truth about her past.\nIn this first part, the writer also describes the War of the Pacific in which Severo del Valle is involved as a soldier.\nThe description of the war is very cruel; this can be seen in the scene where Severo del Valle loses his leg to gangrene.\nThe second part is about the transition of Aurora's childhood into adulthood.\nShe learns to be a photographer and becomes an expert artist in the field of photography.\nThe family moves from San Francisco to Chile and Frederick Williams becomes Paulina's husband, so that he will be accepted in Chilean society.\nEveryone there sees him as a true English lord, but no one knows that his origins are not noble.\nAllende also describes a civil war which affects them directly, as well as the way in which Paulina del Valle endlessly creates new businesses such as growing French wine and selling cheese, in Chile.\nThe Del Valle family then travels to Europe because Paulina has a tumor and needs an operation.\nThe operation is successful and Paulina becomes healthy and strong once more.\nShe is more than 70 years old, but does not show signs of being tired, ill or soft; she imposes her will on her body and thus continues to rule the family as a matriarch.\nThus, the novel is divided into three parts plus an epilogue.\nThe first part describes Aurora's infancy and family members, and in the second part, Aurora's life comes more into play.\nThe third part is where Aurora grows up, becoming a photographer, marrying Diego Domínguez and eventually leaving him.\nShe takes a lover, dr Ivan Radovic, and their relationship is explained more fully in the epilogue.