"Dolores has a concern, almost an obsession, that keeps her awake at night, and that is that her name be cleared. She doesn't want anyone to link her to an attempted fraud, let alone a robbery. What really matters to her is that no one in Peru thinks she wanted to steal a Picasso. I found the package leaning against the door. I thought it was from Amazon or something, but I don't get involved in that."
"The concierge's office on Avenida Pio XII (in Madrid's Chamartin district), where Dolores, 69, and Armando, 71, have worked for more than 20 years, is a two-square-meter entrance to a simple dwelling located at the back of an elegant and discreet complex of five doorways with a small garden and a simple swimming pool now covered against the rain. In that small space, there are a dozen more boxes containing newspapers and magazines to be returned to the kiosk the newsstand that supports them."
Dolores, 69, obsessively wants her name cleared to avoid any association with an attempted fraud or the theft of a Picasso. She and her husband Armando, 71, have worked as concierges for over 20 years in a cramped office on Avenida Pio XII in Madrid's Chamartin district. A small Cubist painting arrived in a package and was placed among stacked boxes and newspapers in the tiny, cluttered space. Three police officers visited their home on October 22, and the couple endured ten stressful days worried about reputation and misunderstanding.
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