La ficha no admite dos ciudades

The course form says Laura is from Madrid, but she was born in Cádiz and her family is still there; the clerk treats her as from Madrid because her current address is there. Laura is an architect who works in Madrid, while Inés, from Lima, also lives in Madrid and writes Lima without hesitation. It is three o'clock, the office is still full, the meeting is on Monday at nine, and Laura crosses out Madrid and will not say she is from Madrid in front of her mother, even though the bank uses Madrid on its letters. Her mother tells her she is from the place she names when someone forces her to choose one city, and Laura submits two facts: origin in Cádiz and address in Madrid.