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38 Populär Culture Review believed: “God had been very gracious to her in freeing her from the worship o f idols and making her a Christian, and letting her bear a son by her lord and master, Cortes, and in marrying her to such a gentleman as Juan Jaram illo” (Diaz 86). Gomara noted that Jaramillo was intoxicated during the marriage ceremony and criticized Cortes for allowing it to take place (Cypess La Malinche 32). Cortes took M alinche’s infant son, Martin, away from his mother and gave him to his cousin to raise. A few years later, he took the boy t