Bizarrely, Tita was born prematurely due to her mother's sensitivity to onions. While chopping onions in the kitchen one day, the heavily pregnant Elena starts crying. As she's already emotional due to the recent death of her husband, Elena's tears from chopping an onion soon mingle with the bitter tears of her sorrow. The ensuing trauma brings on Tita's premature birth, right there on the kitchen floor, brought into the world on a deluge of her mother's tears. The unusual circumstances of Tita's birth—induced by a sensitivity to onions—foreshadows the pain that she will subsequently experience in life. She came into this world on a flood of her mother's tears, and her sad life will be marked by much sobbing and weeping.
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