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*El Privilegio de Amar* is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 27 July 1998 through 26 February 1999. The series stars Adela Noriega, René Strickler, Helena Rojo, and Andrés García, with the participation of leading actor Enrique Rocha and Cynthia Klitbo as the main villain, the evil Tamara. The telenovela follows the story of Luciana, a fashion designer who begins searching for the daughter she abandoned years earlier, unaware that the girl is Cristina, a model in Luciana's fashion house who has fallen in love with Luciana's stepson. *El Privilegio de Amar* is a remake of the 1985 Venezuelan novela *Cristal*. It aired weeknights at 9pm for 31 weeks, totaling 155 episodes. The telenovela is the highest-rated television program in Mexico to date, registering an average of 34.8 percent of the TV audience. It received the TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela in 1999.