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Hi! In this post, I will talk about my favorite band, Iron Maiden, British heavy metal band that started around 1980. I came across Iron Maiden when I was about 9 or 10 years old, at first I was into the whole gory heavy metal imagery, but after listening to every album I've come to like iron Maiden above every other band, be it heavy metal or not. I think the main reason I still like Maiden so much is that I think of them as the whole package: lyrics, album illustrations, themes, trajectory, showmanship and, of course, music. My favorite album by Maiden is Seventh Son of a Seventh Son from 1988, which is their sixth studio album and seventh album overall, hence the name Seventh Son... It includes one of their most famous songs, The Evil That Men Do, but also some other songs that I really like, such as Infinite Dreams, Can I Play With Madness and the eponymous Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I've seen Maiden play live on three occasions, in 2011, in 2013 and in 2016, the fir...

Hi! On this occasion I will write about my pets and what is it that makes them so special for me. I have two dogs, Juana and Ron, and a cat called Romero, I say 'have' instead of 'own', because I dislike the idea of pets being of one's ownership, I'd rather think of them as family members.  My oldest pet is Ron, a poodle-like, caramel brown dog, he's old and grumpy now but he's still the first one to greet anyone that enters my house. I found him abandoned in a park, the guard there told me the dog had been there for a week so I decided to adopt him. The other one, Juana is a black and brown mongrel she-dog, she's called after Joanna of Castile, because she has crazy, human-like, pale blue eyes. She appeared three years ago alone, lost and scared right oustside my house and I took her in while me and my family tried to find her home. After asking around the neighbourhood we concluded that she had been abandoned instead of lost so we decided to let h...