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desconsolaba
-I was distressing
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desconsolar

Estar separada de su familia la desconsolaba y sentía como una terrible pérdida el no poder ser para siempre una adolescente que sostuviera en brazos a su hermano bebé.
The separation from family devastated her and she felt it as a terrible loss that she could not be forever a teenager, holding her baby brother in her arms.
A pesar de su entusiasmo, no tengo dudas, había algo en el extranjero que a Ernesto lo desconsolaba, y acaso fuese el hecho que en última instancia lo indujera a abandonar cualquier idea seria de visitarlo alguna vez: su limitación.
In spite of his enthusiasm, I don't doubt there was something about foreign lands that made Ernesto disconsolate, and maybe it was that fact that, in the end, prompted him to abandon any serious idea of ever traveling: maybe this was his limitation.
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