Subtitles for Almodovar

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You have to offer the English subtitles for the following three stills from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown/Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, a 1988 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.

Context: After an unsuccessful attempt at suicide, Candela has just told her friends her worries. She finishes her explanation as follows:

Still 2 from the Spanish original
		' Pepa, yo no sabía dónde presentarme.' Pepa, I did not know where to show up Constraints: you are allowed a maximum of 30 spaces.

Still 3 from the Spanish original
		'Yo no puedo ir a Málaga con esta papeleta.' *Málaga: city in the south of Spain where Candela comes from and her family lives. *papeleta: in a figurative sense, problem, poser.   - I cannot go to Malaga with this terrible problem Constraints: you are allowed a maximum of 30 spaces.

Still 4 from the Spanish original
		'Bastante es que soy modelo. Tú qué dices?'   - It is enough that I am a model. What do you say? Constraints: you are allowed a maximum of 45 spaces.

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