"Capybara" is a word in ENGLISH
A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara)
Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant
rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It
somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called
also cabiai and water hog.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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