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El Secreto Oscuro De Mis Vecinos - 4 Relatos Aterradores Que Te Dejarán Helado - Voces De La Noche · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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Ever since I was right. My winged neighbor is a kind old man named
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Rogelio. He was the best neighbor anyone wanted to have. And I'
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m not just saying that, because Don Rogelio seemed to love and respect every
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living creature on the planet. He sterilized street dogs, gave them water and
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food, even let them enter his home when it rained and his good deeds
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did not stop there. If any neighbors were in trouble, he' d
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be the first to run to help. And if that were soon after seeing
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the kids we were having trouble playing on the street messing with the drivers and
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obviously risking. With that, he decided to turn his big piece of backyard
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into a mini park for every kid living in the neighborhood had slides and and
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and and when handrails and when the neighborhood parents gave him a symbolic co-
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operation so as not to feel like parasites. In that, Mr Rogelio used
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the money to build one of those thousand roller coasters that surrounded the whole garden.
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I think the happiest memories of my entire childhood come from me doing anything
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in that mini park Don Rogelio had the door open at 24 hours a day
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and came to the point that we didn' t even have to tell him
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if we wanted to pass, because we just did. The only condition was
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to respect the games and if we ate candy or something like that, we
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should have taken away all the garbage we would have taken with us. The
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system worked wonderfully, as no child was willing to lose the privilege of playing
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there, but, unfortunately, nothing is eternal. One morning Mr or Gelio
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never opened his eyes again. In a way, because I think that if
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anyone deserved such a peaceful death and in the tranquility and comfort of his home,
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it was certainly him. In my whole life I' ve never seen
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a funeral so crowded. The house was full inside and even the garden.
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Until we get to the street. I seem to have heard that some had
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traveled from far away just to be able to say goodbye, and even at
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my nine years I knew I wanted something like that. When my time came
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for me to leave the truth. I think it was the first time at
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least I saw your children, but the truth is, they seemed a little
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unpathetic. I' d dare say it bothered them that there were so many
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people in the wake, in fact, already adults. My mother told me
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that part of Don Rogelio' s will dictated that the neighbors closest to him
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would enter his house and organize everything that was useful to donate to people.
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But their children simply said they would, even though the whole neighborhood knew they
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didn' t, as many useful things went to waste. I remember that
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not even a month had passed since Mr Rogelio' s death, when a
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sign of rent was put on one of the windows of the house, not
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to mention that his children had put barbed wire on the fence along with a
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sign not to pass, just to make sure that no child would enter to
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use the games. The parents first resented those measures, but they were the
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new owners and had to respect their decisions. Even if Don Rogelio didn'
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t like that. For that house, people would come and go. Mr
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Rogelio' s children took advantage of that mini park to make the rent higher
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than usual, which is why UAs, the people who rented it soon after
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looked for a cheaper place, so we couldn' t get to know much
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of any of the four families that only lasted a couple of months. That
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was until they arrived. It was a hot summer afternoon, Dad had bought
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me an inflatable pool for my birthday, so we filled it with fresh water
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and along with my neighborhood friends, we would splash and play with water guns.
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When a big brown old truck parked in front of the house next door,
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we all stopped the game for a moment, as we wanted to see
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who the new family was. However, when they went down, I think
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all my friends felt the same chills as me. I felt the whole family
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was strange. And when I say it' s all, that family consisted
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of five members and a sausage dog, which was just as strange. He
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was very fat, so much so that he dragged his belly on the sidewalk
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and his eyes were very big and round. It seemed as if they had
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taken a cartoon out of the real world and what came out was really disturbing.
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The family wasn' t left behind. They all had the same haircut.
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Even the mother was very white and obnoxious. The children seemed like our
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age and, in fact, they all looked the same. I never dared
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ask directly, but I' m pretty sure they were triplets. His eyes
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were black. They didn' t even notice their pupils and they were so
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thin it was like skeletons walking down the sidewalk. I was really so repelled
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that we just decided to ignore them and keep playing. The truth. I
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think we were hoping that, like other families, they would only leave in
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a couple of months and the whole family wouldn' t do anything to meet
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the neighbors either. The children didn' t go out to play in the
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afternoons either, like everyone else. However, as I lived right next to
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them, the window in my room was right in his backyard. My bedtime
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was at ten o' clock at night, and just when I put on
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my pajamas, I could see how those kids were coming out. I don
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' t know if I could call him playing what they were doing, because
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they just sat on the swings and didn' t swing at it, I
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noticed they were looking at my house. I fell asleep and they were still
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in the same position. Perhaps my memory is failing, but I have a
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true memory that those children blinked at the same time during any other hour of
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the day. You couldn' t see them it was like the house was
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empty and so the neighbors said you could only hear some noise. After ten
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o' clock in the evening in the neighborhood among the children began to circulate
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a legend. Rather it was a rumor and it was that that family were
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vampires, that they had moved from Transylvania or something like that. I admit
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it wasn' t a good story, but all the kids in the neighborhood
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believed it at the time and slowly started moving forward. You know, we
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were challenged to see who could take more steps inside his front garden, and
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some also claimed to have seen them do strange things. As they looked out
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the windows, some children said that they had seen them drink blood in golden
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cups and that their beds were coffins. I know that sounds like kids and
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actually, that' s what it was, because I' m convinced that
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no one had the courage to get to that family window without mentioning that the
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rooms were on the second floor. So, unless any of those kids had
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come into the house to see where they were sleeping. It was absurd,
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moreover, the situations that a few months later, because the children began to
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behave very badly with that house that one day housed the one who, in
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my opinion, was the best man who had stepped on the earth. They
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threw eggs and some garlic on the facade and, as I refused to do
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so, they excluded me from the group. I really preferred it before I
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ruined the house. Besides, the family could be very strange, but at
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least it didn' t seem to hurt anyone. They only kept her locked
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up and as far as my father said it wasn' t a crime.
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The weeks passed, my parents had made a small meeting with some neighbors and
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since most of the neighborhood kids no longer wanted me, they had gone to
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play video games at one of them' s homes and I was obviously not
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invited into that. I was playing in my room for a while, but
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I got bored and decided it was best to sleep. However, the music
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and laughter of my parents' meeting prevented me from doing so. I looked
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out my window. There were those children, as always, sitting on the
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swings and staring at the wall of my house. In that I gave a
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few taps to the window glass so they knew it was there. I don
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' t know why I did it. I guess I just wanted them to
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act a little less creepy, but no matter how hard I hit her,
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they didn' t seem to change a bit after I thought about it for
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a few seconds, I decided to come down and say hello. I had
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no friends and I thought maybe they and they wanted one the truth. At
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that time I thought they just didn' t have the social skills to do
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it. My weeks of exile made me realize how much I liked being surrounded
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by people. Besides, Mr Rogelio always taught us that everyone deserved a friend,
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so without my parents noticing it, I put on a sweatshirt and walked
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out the door of our kitchen at first I had my doubts. They were
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very strange kids and if they rejected my friendship, that would ruin the little
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self- esteem I still had. But I was already walking over there and
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I thought I couldn' t take it back anymore. Besides, I was
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doing it in memory of Don Rogelio. The fence was a little high for
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a nine- year- old boy before Don Rogelio' s death. My
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yard was the entrance to the mini park, the door was still there,
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but it had a lock and I couldn' t jump it with the barbed
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wire, which by that time was very rusty, so I decided that the
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best thing, it was better to look out one of the cracks of the
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door and greet them. I told them hello, but none of the three
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turned around as if they hadn' t listened to me, I tried it
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a second time, getting the same result. I probably should have gone back
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in that moment, but in my childish mind, I thought maybe they were
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deaf, so I took a couple of little pebbles. My plan was to
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throw them with enough aim to hit the structure of the swings. I thought
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if they felt the vibration, they' d turn around the first time.
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I didn' t get the second one either. However, the third one
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hit the shoe of one of the triplets and at that time my blood was
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jealous and I thought my heart would stop when the three turned at the same
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time in my direction I swear it looked like a collective mind and the law
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and exaggerating now if I was no longer going back, so I shook my
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hand in friendly gesture and though I still believed they were deaf. I had
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no better idea than to introduce myself using words. I told them what she
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called me, although it was obvious. I also told them I lived in
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that house next to them. In that, none of the three of them
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would take their eyes off me and I don' t remember them blinking.
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I finally offered to play ball for a while or if their parents agreed,
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they could come to my house and play with my board games for a while.
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He even had a pizza table in the garage. The thirteen were completely
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silent. Looking at me, I threw a sigh of resignation, I got
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up from the grass and shook my pants to go back inside, because I
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thought if they were deaf, they would have stopped me from talking, but
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it seemed that they had listened to me. They just didn' t care.
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I got s or turned around and maybe two or three steps in the
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direction of my house when I heard the voice of one of them, which
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told me you can come here if you want. At that moment I looked
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with great hope. The three of them were still sitting on the swings just
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as they had been moments before I turned around. For a moment I thought
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I heard wrong. However, one of them rose from the swing and walked
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towards the fence. His walk was peculiar. He dragged his feet and I
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don' t know, but it was as if someone with a dislocated hip
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could walk in that he pulled the key out of one of his pockets and
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inserted it into himself I can' t explain it. It was like all
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the alerts in my head told me I had to run out of there at
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the time. It was like when a stranger offers you sweets you know that
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something very bad could happen if you' re naive enough to accept them.
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I immediately stepped back as that child turned the key to release. That lock
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I told her that my mom was talking to me and not waiting for her
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answer or even seeing if they believed me, I turned around and ran home
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as fast as I could the next morning I took out my bike very early
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and I was walking around my neighborhood and every time I walked through that house
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I tried to see through those thick curtains to see the inside of that house
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without any success. I thought Mr Rogelio would be very disappointed in me for
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making them such Groseria even thought of going to apologize to them later, when,
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suddenly, in one of my laps I saw the group of children that
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I used to be a part of, I approached them very shyly. I
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thought if I told them my experience the night before, maybe they' d
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let me get back together with them. At first they pretended to ignore me,
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but as I went forward with my story, they seemed to pay much
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more attention to me and at the end of it, they all really seemed
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impressed by my great feat, for I was the only boy who had been
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able to get so close and not only that, but I had talked to
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them. However, among all iván the leader of the group, who had
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expelled me To begin with, although I was impressed, I was also somewhat
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jealous. In that he proposed that everyone stay at my house that night and
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sneak away at ten o' clock to try again to talk to them,
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and he won the one who was not a fearsome like me and dared to
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enter the garden. Most people liked the idea, but I wasn' t
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really willing to expose them that way. I wasn' t afraid someone would
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take away my brave title. It was just that, deep down, I
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thought maybe I' d overreacted and let everyone go see them as exotic animals
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to fulfill a bet. I didn' t think it was right at all,
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so I refused with excuses. I told them my grandfather was visiting us
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and he didn' t like kids running around in the house while I was
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trying to sleep, so my parents had banned me from getting caught until he
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came home. Most of them believed me and didn' t decide to go
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over it. However, and Van wasn' t going to give up so
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easily when we finished playing that afternoon and our parents called us back to our
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respective homes, and Van told me that that night he would try to talk
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to them and that all I had to do was wait for the awake and
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try to record everything I could. I had no argument to stop him,
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so I just said yes and said goodbye to him to get into my house.
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It was ten o' clock at night and Ivan was nowhere to be
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found. They gave 11: 30 and I decided to lie down in my
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bed for a few minutes to rest my eyes. Ivan was supposed to mark
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me or something when I arrived, if I did the truth, I fell
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deeply asleep just touching the pillow and opening my eyes until the next day.
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That' s where I looked out the window. There was nothing strange about
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it. I had a couple of missed calls from Ivan, but no message,
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so I assumed he just dialed me to tell me he wouldn' t
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come. However, when I went down to the room were Ivan' s
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parents talking to the most s o n s NS seem, they couldn'
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t find Ivan anywhere and were asking their friends if they knew anything. Luckily,
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we were too small for the police to think that Ivan might have fled
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on his own. I didn' t know if to say everything I knew.
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After all, my parents had suggested not to approach the neighbors and for
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fear of being punished. I only told them that Ivan dialed me three times
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at midnight, but I was asleep and I couldn' t answer the whole
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neighborhood. With the exception of my neighbors, they came together to look for
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him nearby, but they were unsuccessful. That night I went to bed without
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looking at the window. It took me a long time to sleep, but
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I finally got it, although some noises woke me up cautiously. I walked
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up to the window and looked up. I was hoping to see the same
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usual scenario to the triplets sitting on the swing, but this time it was
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totally different. The whole family was burying something I didn' t see what
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it was, because they were already finishing by the time I looked up,
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the dog, which I had only seen the first day they arrived, was
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twisting in the middle of the courtyard. To date. I can' t
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guarantee it, but I think something was shaking in his stomach. It was
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like I was trying to get out of it. I didn' t mean
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to. I moved my hand and threw a lamp, making the whole family
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turn in my direction and quickly crouched down and came back to my bed begging
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that they would not see me the next morning I told my parents what I
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had seen and as soon as I told the neighbors they went to the door.
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However, after a few minutes they realized something obvious. The house was
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empty and Ivan' s parents entered the garden to end up where there was
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loose land. But I don' t think anyone was prepared for what we
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found. There were dead dogs and cats. It wasn' t one or
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two It was more than twenty. Some still had necklaces on in the neighborhood.
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No pets had been lost, but it didn' t take much research
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to know that those were the pets in nearby neighborhoods. My friend never showed
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up and we never heard from him again. We don' t know if
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they had anything to do with it or not, because no tenant ever came
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back. It lasted for more than a few days. After that, no
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matter how much the rent went down, and the last thing I knew was
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that they sold it for a parking lot. For security reasons, I won
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' t say my name, the names of those involved or where our farm
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is. My grandfather was the kindest, understanding and loving person I knew.
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All this did not prevent him from acting harsh or firm when needed. When
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I was just a little boy, I dreamed of being like him. When
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I was older, he used to tell me amazing stories about his youth about
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the age of fifteen. He worked all summer like an ass so he could
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buy a used motorcycle and that way impress my grandmother. He told me other
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stories. I think I was going on every opportunity I had just so we
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could sit on the swing at the Portico watching the sunset myself drinking lemonade or
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some soda with cookies and the beer and his classic tobacco pipe. Telling me
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all those experiences of a distant youth when I was about eleven or maybe twelve
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years old, he told me how he had to leave his studies to dedicate
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himself to the family farm and also that he would have liked to finish a
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career to become a famous writer or something that left his mark on this world.
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I think that was the first time that I didn' t see him
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happy with the life that touched him. I asked him why not. He
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simply said that he did not want to be a farmer and he replied that
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there were not many options at the time. You were stuck with what the
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family expected of you. I already knew it was a tradition in my family
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that the greatest grandson in turn, inherit the farm. That’ s why
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my family insisted on learning the farm work and always praised how good it was
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on them, even though I always knew they were exaggerating their reactions. On
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the day my grandfather told me the story of how I accomplished everything, he
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was happy with his life and that he did not regret marrying my grandmother or
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having all his children and then his grandchildren. No doubt there were some dreams
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he would have really loved to fulfill. And right there, with a compassionate
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voice and something serious, he told me that it didn' t matter that
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I was the oldest, because if I decided to, I could own my
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own destiny and if I didn' t want to stay even if the family
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didn' t agree, he could help me. At that moment I felt
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like I was saying it as if staying there was some kind of punishment,
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but to tell you the truth, the idea of being the greatest grandchild and
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inheriting all that was quite comfortable for me. I was never very good at
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studies and didn' t have much interest outside the Farm, even though my
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grandfather always encouraged me to look for them and even offered to pay for some
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workshops or sports in which he felt it could be good. The truth.
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I never particularly highlighted anything. I' ve always believed that a part of
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my subconscious believed that their future was already resolved and it wasn' t worth
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fighting the current. Time passed and my eighteenth birthday was coming. I was
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about to graduate high school and I hadn' t even been interested in looking
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for universities or any kind of technical career I could specialize in. Now that
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I think about it, it was really sadistic to be waiting like a vulture
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for my grandfather to die so that I would start taking care of the farm,
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especially because, as far as I remember, even I didn' t
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want that in my mind. My grandfather would always be with me. A
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couple of weeks before my graduation. I was helping my grandfather move some alfalfa
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for the cattle. That afternoon, he looked much more thoughtful than normal.
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He walked outside the barn and drank some water. When I saw that I
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was not coming back, I decided to join him, so I left the
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bell to one side and walked to his side. The sun began to hide
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and in the sky you could see all those reddish and orange shades of a
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sunset. My grandfather and I had spoken so much for practically my entire life
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that at that point we understood each other only with silence. It didn'
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t take to tell us anything to know how much we appreciated each other.
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And or or or or or, I had told absolutely everything about me and
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at the same time I believed that there was not a single story or thing
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that he had not told me, but suddenly he looked at me. He
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threw a bitter sigh and turned to where were some albino skunks that were only
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there for pure decoration. It wasn' t a humble farm. It wasn
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' t even average. Our farm was perhaps one of the largest in the
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country. It produced enough profits to support all family members until they were as
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old as my grandfather. Most worked on the farm, but for those who
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went out to study any career they could live comfortably, knowing that they could
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have almost any amount of money just by asking for it. I wasn'
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t aware of how the farm was doing so well. I didn' t
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even know how many years he' d been in operation. He only knew
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that he had been inherited generation after generation. But that afternoon my grandfather told
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me a new story, something I thought impossible. Until then. He had
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told me hundreds of stories about him and I didn' t think he had
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any more. However, that story wasn' t about him, it was
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just a story that only adults in the family knew. My grandfather began his
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account by telling me a name, which I will not reveal because of the
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privacy of my family. He told me he didn' t expect me to
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know him, because he was a relative of ours, the first of us,
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who founded that farm. He came to this country with nothing, no
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more family. Some in the family said that his whole family had been in
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some shady businesses and had killed them leaving him just for being too young.
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But whatever the case was, it was the one that started. Everything.
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It was other times. Many might say they were much simpler. There was
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no owner of things, but they were ra ra ra ras claimed by someone.
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Then you could take them and you did so, taking enough land to
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build a room of hedgehogs to shelter yourself from the cold and enough to try
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to cultivate something so you wouldn' t starve to death. The people around
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him felt sorry for him, for as much as he did, his planting
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was scarce and often ruined with plagues or bad weather. No matter how hard
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he tried or what he did, he simply could not prosper or even manage
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to keep himself. Neighbors began rumors that those lands that our ancestor had claimed
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as his were simply cursed, so no one wanted to claim the land next
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to him and they didn' t want to hire him either, because they
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thought he could pass them his bad luck on one occasion. Enough of that
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whole situation implored God to die. He told him that in his divine mercy
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he would free him from that horrible life he had had to live, saying
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that he was only a hindrance in this world. However, someone listened to
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his supplications that cold winter night and it was not God. After telling me
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that, my grandfather paused slightly and stared at me as if with his gaze
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he asked me if I wanted to keep listening to the rest. I swallowed
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a little saliva, already felt slightly and then continued to say that what attended
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the prayers of our ancestor was not God, but neither was any heir.
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So far he really knows what it is at the beginning, my ancestor thought
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it was the same Lucifer in person. It all began with a strong gust
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of wind that he believed would completely destroy that fragile room of hedgehogs where he
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slept. However, he only managed to knock the door, letting that devilish
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creature into his chambers. The candle that was on the side to give a
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little heat to his fingers suddenly went out, leaving him in total darkness,
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not without first being able to notice that he had a goat' s leg
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and a cock' s leg, in addition to a strong sulfur aroma that
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quickly flooded the place. He heard that thing walking around him limping and seemed
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to breathe with a little difficulty. After a few seconds of walking around him
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that thing. He finally spoke to her. He told him that if he
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wanted to die, he could help him with that, but if he wanted
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to improve his luck, he could also help him. My ancestor was totally
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stunned by what was happening to him. However, he managed to gather enough
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courage to ask him what that thing could give him. And that thing answered
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that I could give him everything he wanted. The love of any woman,
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money, luck, prosperity, as long as he paid the price, he
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asked him what he wanted in exchange for all the prosperity he could give him.
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If he made his life full of prosperity and well- being for him
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and his family. Then he was willing to give him his soul, but
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that being replied that he was not interested in pathetic human souls, that those
30:18
souls had no value to him, but if he really wanted to serve him
30:23
well, they could come to an agreement. What he asked of him was
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total devotion. He had to build a great altar and on every third day
30:33
of the full moon, make a sacrifice and make sure that it lasted forever.
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Even if he died, he would have to leave the eldest grandson in
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charge of continuing those rituals. Even when he was flat. When my grandfather
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finished telling me the story, I was quite disoriented. On the one hand,
30:53
he told me that this could not be real, but not only the
30:56
person who trusted most in this world was telling me, but that story answered
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some of the questions concerning my life, such as the fact that we had
31:06
never stepped on a church, or that some of our pets, or even
31:10
pets from the neighborhood had mysteriously disappeared, including that mysterious part of the Farm
31:18
where children were forbidden to go and even there were guards to prevent them from
31:22
entering. That was the life my grandfather tried to keep me away from for
31:27
so long and thanks to my foolishness of wanting to take the easy way,
31:33
I had simply ignored it. At that time I begged my grandfather to help
31:37
me get out of there that I didn' t feel ready to kill neighborhood
31:41
animals in the name of what I could only describe as a demon. My
31:47
grandfather told me that we could try to pretend, that I had a sudden
31:52
interest in some career or maybe some school where they would teach me more farm
31:56
stuff and that way, once away from the family, maybe I could try
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to run away. He would send me enough money so I wouldn' t
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worry. And that' s what we did. I pretended to want to
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attend a kind of course to improve the production of the farm, by the
32:13
time it was my turn to inherit it, they didn' t raise much
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objection. My grandfather was still alive, so it still took a few years
32:20
for that diabolical inheritance to pass to me. As soon as I had the
32:25
chance, I disappeared except for my grandfather. No one in my family could
32:30
know where I was I closed all my accounts so they couldn' t track
32:37
me down and basically, I started a life as a hermit. For some
32:39
reason, I believed that if I dared to set foot outside my apartment,
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my family, or any of her acquaintances, I would see my whereabouts exposed.
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I think I lived that way at least four, maybe five years.
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From time to time, to one time video called with my grandfather and he
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told me that my family was still looking for me, but he promised me
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to make a total grave and not say a single word where I was from.
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It was on one of these calls that I heard it with a horrible
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cough. It was so strong that it was all red and seemed to be
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short of air and as the days passed it seemed to only get worse on
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the last call I had with him. He had a coughing attack so hard
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that he spit blood all over the screen. I didn' t even have
33:30
time to ask her if she was okay, because almost immediately after that she
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hung up I stayed a couple of minutes looking at the screen in black.
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I didn' t know if I should call an ambulance or anything or just
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ignore it. I finally decided to send an ambulance to the farm and cross
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my fingers so that my grandfather would be fine even if I couldn' t
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be with him, I tried to distract my mind with some video games or
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trying to watch a series, but no matter what I tried to occupy my
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mind. I just couldn' t get distracted, so I just chose to
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take a couple of sleeping pills and go to bed. Those pills had become
34:13
my best allies since all that nightmare of running away from my inheritance had begun.
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I knew that if I came back at that moment just to see my
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grandfather, all his efforts would be totally ruined, so I would just stand
34:28
there waiting for the next call. Normally, those pills made me sleep all
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night long. They were so effective that I didn' t even dream it
34:39
was more like a long blink. However, I know that night I had
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to have a dream too horrible for me to wake up screaming and soaking in
34:47
sweat. Sometimes I start trying to remember exactly what I dreamt that night.
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However, as much as I can remember is like a kind of dough similar
34:58
to ground carme urde. It was very serious, many eyes and tentacles,
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but no matter how hard I try. I think I' ll never be
35:07
able to remember the whole dream, but what I do remember as clear as
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the water is how I took off my shirt to try to cool off.
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I kind of felt like my skin was boiling. I walked into the bathroom
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with every intention of lowering my temperature. With a cold water bath, I
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opened the shower and entered the fresh water. It felt so nice falling on
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my skin. I closed my eyes for a moment to wet my face,
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when suddenly I felt like boiling water fell on the same of surprise. I
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saw a jump that made me slip down the wet floor and then crawling I
35:45
managed to get out of the shower, I didn' t know what had
35:47
happened. I hadn' t even opened up some hot water to make that
35:52
happen. The bathroom was beginning to fill with steam, so even with the
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body sore from the fall, I got up and with great effort I closed
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the key, as I felt the boiling water falling into my hands. When
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I tried to close the shower, the steam in my bathroom was very thick
36:12
and until today I can swear I smelled sulfur. I found the door knob
36:16
and came out of there I was coughing and with a few blisters in my
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hand from when I tried to close the key, at some point I had
36:27
read that for burns the best thing was to spread a little oil on it,
36:31
so I walked into the kitchen and quickly opened a bottle of olive oil
36:36
and dropped a little on my hand, already a little quieter, but still
36:40
trying to analyze everything that had happened to me. I went into my room
36:45
and sat on the bed. I sat there alone for several minutes, looking
36:51
at myself in the huge mirror facing my bed. For some reason, I
36:54
was afraid to go back to sleep a part of me. I thought I
36:59
could dream the same thing and history would repeat itself. My phone started ringing
37:04
without thinking twice or even seeing the contact' s name. I answered at
37:10
first. It was a little weird. It was like the sound of several
37:14
animals being killed in the background, but there was a lot of interference.
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I thought maybe you could owe it to the backstory. I took off the
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Ear' s phone to see the contact' s name. It wasn'
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t my grandfather It wasn' t even a real number. It was as
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if a lot of numbers, letters and symbols had been pressed on the keyboard
37:36
and magically that would have become a real phone number. I figured maybe it
37:42
was just a flaw in my phone, so I was about to put my
37:45
finger on the screen to hang up. When suddenly someone spoke, he told
37:52
me in a cold, thick voice not to hang up. I stuck my
37:55
phone back to the Ear I wanted to say that I thought I had the
38:00
wrong number, but before even the words came out of my mouth, whatever
38:05
was on the other side told me that I had not been wrong, that
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I knew perfectly who I was talking to. I was in total silence.
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I didn' t know what to answer to that, so I just kept
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listening. He told me he couldn' t run away from anything, that
38:23
I had been sold to him long before I was born and that maybe I
38:28
could hide from my family, but never from him. He not only knew
38:32
exactly where I was, but he could cause me great pain without even striving.
38:38
At that moment I felt something stuck in my throat. I couldn'
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t stand the most and ran to the sink giving arcades. I felt like
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my stomach was full of nails, which were trying to come out my throat.
38:52
I finally spit a big ball of hair too long for it to be
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mine was full of blood and it smelled so disgusting that I threw up a
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second time, but this time it was vomit. That thing really kept talking.
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He told me my grandfather was about to die, but if I came
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back at that time I could catch up with him to say goodbye, or
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I could stand there spitting out balls of hair, because that was just the
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beginning of what I could get if I didn' t fulfill the part of
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the deal that touched me. My grandfather wasn' t very happy to see
39:28
me there. I could see it in his eyes. I asked my family
39:30
to let me talk to him for a moment. I alone told him what
39:35
happened and because he was back, but not to worry, for I promised
39:38
him that that damn inheritance would die with me. I' m glad to
39:45
know you left this world believing that. A couple of months later I scheduled
39:50
a basectomy. I was more than committed to fulfilling what I had promised my
39:54
grandfather. A year or two later I met the woman of my dreams the
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earth invited me out and only a year later we were already married. I
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never told her that the gruesome family secret felt she was just going to scare
40:08
her, and anyway, that didn' t apply to us anymore. However,
40:15
I couldn' t be more wrong, as a couple of months after
40:19
the wedding we were expecting a baby. At first I refused to believe it.
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I was barren, the child my wife was waiting for. It couldn
40:28
' t be mine, and even if it hurt, I' d prefer
40:34
that child to be the product of infidelity, to be mine. However,
40:36
when he was born and I gave him a paternity test, there was no
40:40
doubt that child was mine. Now I know there' s no way to
40:45
break that pact. My first- born will get married, he' ll
40:50
make me grandfather, and he' ll inherit this damn ballast that I inherited.
40:52
Now I know there' s no way out of that. The events
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of that Christmas night of 2, 000 are still present in my memory,
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reflected in it as a tattoo, as are the scars on my skin.
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This is the first time I' ve dared to tell you what happened.
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All my childhood and part of my adolescence I lived in the orphanage the children
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of the faun. The name was as strange to me at the time as
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it was to you. It must be now the name was justified by an
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ancient legend of the area multiple sightings of a half- goat man living in
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the forest. The only thing I remember from my birth parents is that my
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mother used to like to put out her cigarettes on my back with those records
41:44
made it worse for me than living with my parents, no matter how many
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things they did to us in that orphanage. However, because of that tortuous
41:52
past, he used to be a frightened child, who was completely paralyzed by
41:58
fear. In an orphanage, many children come and go, so making friends
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was not as simple as one could expect. But if you' d been
42:08
around long enough, there as I was sure you could make a couple of
42:13
friends, you could swear in blood that they would be inseparable until the day
42:17
of your death, and I guess to some extent I wasn' t wrong
42:21
about that. My best friends were Marcos and Yasmin. The latter was older
42:25
than us and was practically, like that sister, older than we ever had
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Mark. On the other hand, he was younger than us, and we
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knew that by his young age he had experienced things that we couldn' t
42:40
even live in our worst nightmares, so he didn' t usually talk much.
42:45
Our way of knowing that Christmas was approaching was not the pretty, colorful
42:49
lights, carols or the longing to receive gifts, but it was the fact
42:53
that we had to go to the next town to sell the famous punch and
42:58
freshly baked bread for which our orphanage was famous. If you ask me,
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it was nothing but child exploitation. Every year, a group of children were
43:08
taken to the forest where we had to meet the quota of at least three
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buckets of tejocotes. We were literally not allowed to return home until we fulfilled
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that, so they would imagine, because no child was excited to be selected.
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That year of my group of friends, the only one selected had been
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me. That was a particularly cold day and we could not wish to be
43:34
doing anything other than looking for fruit while our hands were freezing. The worst
43:38
thing was that another of the selected guys had been Valentine. Like me,
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he came from a family of abusive parents, so he was following in his
43:47
footsteps. He was the most abusive in the orphanage. Not having my friends
43:52
with me, this one had the free pass to hit me and take off
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every tile I collected that had already been the reason why by the almost time
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of dinner I had only collected two buckets instead of the three I needed.
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The watchman warned me and another of the children named Camilo, who was only
44:12
nine years old that we were not allowed to return if we did not fill
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at least one more bucket, otherwise we would stay in the forest all night.
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At the same time as he threatened us, he himself took the road
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back to home not without threatening to return in an hour and hoped that we
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would have finished by then, as soon as he came out of our visual
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range, I proposed to Camilo to go further into the forest. That was
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forbidden, of course, but leaving us unsupervised too. In addition, all
44:47
nearby trees had been left without ripe fruit. Camino hesitated a little, but
44:52
after looking at the trees and promising him that we wouldn' t go too
44:57
far he ended up doing. If I hadn' t been so insistent,
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maybe my life would have been so different like that hour. We had to
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go a lot deeper than even I had imagined. I even thought about turning
45:13
around and coming back, as the darkness seemed to get deeper as we got
45:17
deeper. That thought was set aside when we visualized a huge, leafy redneck
45:23
tree. There were so many that we could hardly believe it without further delay.
45:30
We proceeded to lift up all the fruit that was already on the ground,
45:34
but soon we realized that the birds had already eaten or pecked most of
45:37
them. Still. That didn' t discourage us. I charged Camilo so
45:43
he could come up for a moment We felt like real geniuses. We even
45:49
decided to cut some extras to eat later. But, like everything in our
45:52
life, until that moment, happiness was taken away from us. In a
45:57
second. When we started listening and sounded playful and threatening, I looked around
46:02
trying to find out what was causing those laughs, but I couldn' t
46:08
see anything or anyone I asked Camilo if I could see anyone, but I
46:14
didn' t have an immediate answer and I couldn' t see him in
46:19
the thick foliage either, so I figured I' d climbed up a little
46:22
bit more to get to see what it was that was trying to scare us,
46:27
but soon I knew that this wasn' t. In this way,
46:28
the tree shook violently, as that laughter grew louder. I couldn' t
46:35
even notice exactly what was going on until I heard a complaint from Camilo.
46:39
I was about to go up for it when I watched something come out of
46:45
a jump from that tree and land on a continuous tree, which had far
46:50
less foliage. Letting me see more clearly that horrible scene, the moonlight was
46:54
enough to see perfectly. That horrible creature was in extreme thinness. His body
47:01
was clean and had extremely long arms, which almost came along his legs,
47:07
which were like a goat' s. With one of his long arms he
47:14
held Camilo in his head, covering his mouth with his long fingers so that
47:17
he could not scream his head. It was in the form of an egg
47:22
and on it possessed great horns. His ears were the same as a goat
47:27
' s. The creature smiled in a dark way. It was almost as
47:31
if I enjoyed seeing my expression of deepest terror. I didn' t want
47:37
to leave Camilo, but I didn' t know what to do either.
47:40
The impression left me frozen and I was only able to regain mobility when one
47:45
leap advanced to another tree and then to another moving away with Camilo in his
47:50
arms. Once I regained mobility, I felt like my pants were wet,
47:55
I had no idea what to do. I felt I had to go out
48:00
of fear, friend, but my legs were also bent, preventing me from
48:05
taking a step in any direction. I don' t even know how long
48:07
I was standing in the same place without being able to move, as the
48:12
caretaker went into the woods until I found myself crying in the same place and
48:16
couldn' t even conjugate what had happened. The days that followed were rather
48:21
confusing for me. Camilo' s search continued without success and I, for
48:24
one, had become nothing but a shadow of what I once was. I
48:30
had stopped eating and sleeping. My friends were always by my side protecting me
48:37
and giving me their support. During those days I was fed up, even
48:43
my friends who, although they were with me, were more than obvious that
48:45
they did not believe me. I was sure of what I had seen and
48:49
very soon I could corroborate it. I remember sitting on my desk and by
48:53
the corner of my eye I visualized something through the window, something I was
48:59
sure I wasn' t doing for a moment, so I turned my head
49:02
and there I was again. In broad daylight, it looked even more frightening.
49:07
His gray skin, made his eyes completely black, which stared at me,
49:12
look even more frightening. While I was waving as if I recognized myself
49:19
from a scream. I alerted everyone to turn to the window, but when
49:22
they all did, it was gone. They laughed when they noticed that fear
49:27
had made me wet my pants again for the next few days, that became
49:32
a daily routine. I saw him through the windows. The last few times
49:37
he started to be even bolder. I saw him looking for my shoes under
49:43
my bed in some closet, when I needed to take a broom or toilet
49:46
paper. I didn' t understand why he didn' t just take me.
49:51
I had already had too many opportunities, especially when I learned that many
49:55
nights I was watching myself sleep from the darkness of the room. For that
50:00
point, more than fear, what I had was a great anger. I
50:04
was sure that he had killed a camel and now I was doing torment every
50:08
day. It was almost as if I enjoyed my fear more than eating me.
50:13
It was a Christmas Eve, we were all asleep and the cold squid
50:17
you to the bone. I got up in the bathroom as I walked back
50:22
I could see it through one of the windows. It was as if the
50:25
cold didn' t bother him. That was the last thing I can remember
50:30
very clearly. After that, everything is very cold, the gnashing of the
50:34
door and the soil wet by the dew of the night. The latter is
50:38
what really made me react just to realize that I was in the depth of
50:43
the forest. I had nothing but my pajamas and I had no shoes,
50:47
so the cold caught my bones. I could not yet assimilate what had happened
50:53
when I heard that playful laughter again. It was at that moment that I
50:59
began to be very afraid. It was as if that state of trance in
51:02
which I found myself vanished in just a second. Being replaced by a deep
51:07
terror. I backed back a little thinking that I would be near the exit
51:14
from the forest, but that thought faded away. When I turned my head
51:17
and could not recognize anything around, I tried to scream, but my screams
51:23
were lost in the darkness of the forest. The real terror came when I
51:28
heard laughter and those footsteps closer to me, which were unmistakablely hooves on the
51:34
dry leaves. Desperate, I started running trying to recognize something that would lead
51:40
me back to Home. I didn' t even know my legs were able
51:45
to run so fast and suddenly almost like a miracle I crashed into Yasmin,
51:51
which was accompanied by Mark. Apparently, Marcos had seen when I left Home
51:55
and tried to stop me, but before he got to me he was already
52:00
deep inside the forest. I didn' t know if I appreciated or denied
52:06
the fact that they were both there, as I knew that faun was on
52:09
my back. I tried to explain this to my friends, but they didn
52:15
' t seem scared, as they should be. They just wanted us to
52:17
go back to the home home, so we walked a little before listening to
52:22
those hooves again on the dry leaves and that dreadful and gloomy Yasmin laugh,
52:29
which was always the most sensible, wanted to find a logic to everything as
52:34
always tried to be the ripe of the situation telling me that it was only
52:38
a forest animal and that we had to hurry back. That didn' t
52:45
convince me a bit and I could see in Marco' s eyes that he
52:47
didn' t believe it either. We walked a little further to notice that
52:52
the leaves of the trees began to move violently as if someone were shaking them.
52:57
That was something that no doubt not even Yasmin could find a sensible and
53:01
logical explanation. I can clearly remember the words let' s get out of
53:07
here, Marco, we have to get out of here now. Those words
53:10
still rumble in my head, as it was the last thing I heard,
53:15
in addition to shouts and curses, since long arms held Mark trying to climb
53:20
him to one of the trees with a quick reflection and not knowing how,
53:24
Yasmin managed to hold him by the legs. He listened to Mark scream and
53:30
cry as he saw that infernal creature directly. I can never forget the claws
53:36
of that creature. Holding on to Mark' s skin, Jasmin held on
53:39
and shouted to release him, at the same time he begged me to come
53:45
out of that trance in which he had entered again to help him hold Mark,
53:49
as he was beginning to slip. I took a thick branch of the
53:53
ground and hit as hard as I could the arms of that being as it
53:58
worked for him to let go Yasmin and Marcos fell to the ground. For
54:02
my part, I could only observe the creature growling with a very similar hatred
54:07
to what I saw before when I took Camilo. That was my alarm signal
54:13
to know that we had to run immediately, and Asmin and Marcos also knew
54:17
us, because they were not yet fully up and were already moving in the
54:22
opposite direction. As we ran and listened to that thing, moving through the
54:28
trees, I almost missed the laughter of it, as it had been replaced
54:31
by grunts of hatred, grunts that let you know that there was no way
54:37
out. I remember crying while I was running. I thought that would be
54:43
our end. The impact of all this hardly made me realize that that dreadful
54:47
creature was now beginning to move directly towards me, and it was not until
54:52
I heard Yasmin' s voice alert me at the same time that he pushed
54:58
me off the path of the claws of that maid, causing those huge,
55:02
sharp claws to tear on her arm. I' ve never seen Yasmín have
55:07
so much fear in his face, and even with that she wanted to protect
55:14
me at all costs with the heavy flashlight that he was carrying, hitting the
55:19
face of the creature, and without wasting time, he held me in my
55:22
pajamas and almost dragged me away to continue to flee. Despite what I thought,
55:24
we weren' t totally lost. Yasmi had led us in the right
55:30
direction. All that time we got from that demonic forest we crossed the gate
55:36
of the house. Home felt like nothing could hurt us there anymore. That
55:40
thought was a huge mistake. When we arrived at the door, we saw
55:45
that the door was closed. Despair returned with greater intensity. I remember knocking
55:52
on the door, screaming and kicking in a desperate attempt because someone would listen
55:57
to us and help us. For my bad luck, the only one who
56:00
attended that distress call was Mauro, who seemed to be returning from hunting,
56:05
since in one of his hands he had his very classic machete and in the
56:08
other he had a dead rabbit. His first impression was to rebuke us for
56:14
being out of bed so early. But that changed by noticing how instead of
56:20
being frightened we ran in his direction. Fear prevented us from being able to
56:24
explain exactly everything that had happened, so we only tried to push it in
56:29
the opposite direction to hide in the cellar, where we used to keep some
56:35
tools. It was not so surprising that, as we pushed him into the
56:39
cellar, he dropped both his machete and that rabbit. Once inside we tried
56:45
to explain at the same time everything that had happened to us in the forest
56:51
and, from what told us his face of confusion, we were not achieving
56:53
it. Jasmin showed the deep cuts on his arm as he stressed that that
57:00
errant creature was still outside and we had to alert Mauro authorities radically changed his
57:06
position at the time he saw the cuts on Yasmin' s arm. It
57:09
was almost as if something inside him clicked instantly. However, that change of
57:15
attitude was quickly overshadowed. When we heard a loud knock on the door,
57:21
that thing had found us. I knew we were inside and I was determined
57:25
to get us out of there as it might be. While Yasmin' s
57:30
face frame and mine was of absolute terror Mauro' s was that of a
57:34
serious countenance. It was almost as if he was fed up and knew exactly
57:39
what to do. He took Yasmin by the arm that was not wounded and
57:44
assured that he would not leave until he had the one already marked. We
57:49
asked him what he meant and let go, but ignoring him he began to
57:52
drag Yasmin out of that cellar. We curse Mauro for even thinking of putting
57:59
Yasmin in the hand of that creature. Realizing that I could never fight Mauro
58:04
' s strength, I took a shovel and struck his leg with all my
58:08
might. That led to an alarm, and after calling me an idiot child,
58:15
he assured me that the creature would be more than pleased to have all
58:19
three of us. While he was saying this, he opened the cellar door
58:22
and threw Yasmin out of it. For my part, I had no choice
58:25
but to run after her. After all she had always protected me and it
58:30
was time to do the same, but on leaving there was nothing. There
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was no noise either. Yasmini and I were looking everywhere for that creature,
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while Mauro and Marco only saw us scared from the warehouse. Nothing happened anymore.
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After a moment, Mauro allowed us into the home. We were very
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upset with him. We wanted to beat him up and insult him, but
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we were afraid he' d let us in. When they came in,
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we were very scolded for leaving the orphanage and healing Yasmin' s wounds.
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Nobody said anything about what happened. Not even Mauro just said he found us
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out of the place and we came from the woods. Since then we no
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longer experienced any sighting of that creature and we agreed to be together when we
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were sent to collect jocotes so that we would not be so afraid to be
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back in the forest. Halloween dates were getting closer and closer to some of
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the most popular in the country and the world, days when people get used
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to dressing up as their most common horror characters. I wasn' t so
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fond of following that tradition, because my father wasn' t very funny about
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that kind of holiday, so I was struck by it whenever I expressed my
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interest in dressing up to hear some party with my friends. For him,
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that kind of thing wasn' t right. He told me that, instead
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of having healthy fun, one attracted those lost spirits or souls who did not
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yet find eternal rest. However, this year was different because Mary, one
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of my best friends, had planned a Halloween party, which was costumed and
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also used to celebrate her 22nd birthday. So, without hesitation, I started
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looking for ideas for my costume so a few days before the party, very
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excited and taking advantage that my dad had gone to work, I went to
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the center of the city, to a street with many locals and goods.
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I was walking for a long time until I stopped in front of a clothing
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store, which, honestly, was of very dubious origin. However, my
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desire to go to that event was greater. When lins left the place.
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I could see that a very older woman was the one who was tending her
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seemed sloppy and in her eyes there was much sadness. His face seemed to
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reflect much disappointment. While he was taking care of me, he started to
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tell me that he had dedicated his whole life to tailoring and that it was
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very frustrating to see a lot of people come in all the time, but
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that he didn' t buy anything and that' s how they were every
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day. But when I saw him coming in, he had been excited,
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for apparently he saw my interest in buying something, and so it was,
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walking through the shelves and corridors, I realized that, in fact, those
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costumes had a very rare and strange peculiarity at the same time, because they
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were not so common, which I loved. As he continued to chat with
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that woman, he had asked her why her shop was not so well known,
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to which she replied that many years ago a group of young people had
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spread negative rumors of their time and clothing, as most of those people were
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friends of the competition, who, on multiple occasions, insisted that the woman
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close her business. Apparently, I had liked that old lady very well,
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so at one point she opened some drawers and took out a beautiful dress,
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which alluded to a witch that the dress looked very old but at the same
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time very peculiar, which made me more interested in him. That woman I
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remember very well that she told me her name was Benita. He told me
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that it had been one of his oldest and most expensive garments and despite not
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knowing me he stared at me and after a long time smiling at me he
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told me that he had also dropped me that he was willing to give it
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to me, as something in his being told him that I was the one
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to wear it. I have to say that all that was very rare,
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because, by fateful chance, that garment was my size and fit perfect tare
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with my body. It was like it was made exclusively for me. When
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he offered me the dress, I clearly refused. I knew that woman needed
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money, but she insisted so much that at the end of the day I
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ended up accepting that gift, not knowing it was going to be one of
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the biggest mistakes of my entire life. That dress had a very peculiar smell,
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as if it had been next to something rotten. However, that was
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the least. I was planning on taking him to a laundromat to take that
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terrible smell away I couldn' t complain. In the end I got a
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good suit and mainly free and despite continuing to have doubts about the venite store,
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I tried to focus on what I had to do. Then as soon
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as I got out of there, I went to the laundry. I didn
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' t want to waste any more time. I still had to choose my
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makeup and a good wig. While washing the dress, I prepared to keep
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looking for what urray I still needed. Hours later, when I finally had
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everything ready, I quickly stopped by to pick it up. That' s
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when the girl in the laundry, very worried, told me that dress had
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thrown a strange brown liquid. It was as if its consistency was blood,
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but as if it were spoiled. At that moment I tried to remember when
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Benita offered it to me and I began to imagine all sorts of terrifying things
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about the origin of that dress in my head. But all of them seemed
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so unreal and absurd that there came a time when I felt very bad for
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believing that Benita wanted to do me some kind of harm, when all she
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wanted to do was give me a gift. At that time I came back
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to my reality and told the girl from the laundry who had just acquired the
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dress, I even pointed out the place where I had bought it. Automatically.
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The woman gave me a very worrying look. She only told me to
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be careful, because no one trusted that woman, since that lady seemed very
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mysterious, that very few knew about her, but there was a rumor that
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she was a witch or something like that. Honestly, at that time I
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didn' t care and took the dress off the counter and even though I
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was still smelling nasty, I could see that I had an undecent appearance.
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At the time I thought that was the least of it. I also wanted
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to cause terror among the guests who would be there and although I was not
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so well known there, I held fast that night I had to shine in
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that crowd. I came out very determined from the laundry directly to my house.
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When I got home, I went straight to my bedroom. I left
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everything and the first thing I did was put my dress on when I saw
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myself in the mirror, I felt like I was someone else. I felt
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that vibe and chill that many people talked about in horror stories or movies.
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I figured it was because of everything that had happened, but I didn'
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t give it too much importance. I let it go and rushed to finish
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fixing myself I had little time. I stopped again for a few seconds in
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front of the mirror. I was terrified. I don' t deny it,
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it gave me the creeps. I grabbed my bag that was on the
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couch and left the house. On the way to the party. My head
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started to hurt really hard, so I had to go back and take a
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pain pill, because I could no longer take that feeling that was getting stronger
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and stronger. I sat down for a few minutes on the couch to get
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over it. A little after a while, a little quieter, I got
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up and went to my friend' s party. It wasn' t the
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big party, although there were a lot of people, I didn' t
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feel that it caught the disappointed attention. I sat on one of the armchairs
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in the living room and then started to drink as the hours passed. My
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body began to feel very tired, my hands were shaking and I began to
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feel my head explode for a moment. I thought it was because of the
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effects of alcohol, but I hadn' t had so many drinks. Everything
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was as strange as anything taking over me. I didn' t really feel
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myself and that worried me, as I was starting to get nervous and despairing
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more and more. I was really worried because at that moment my instinct wanted
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to hurt someone, take a knife from the kitchen, go to the party
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and see blood in the first person to approach me. It was as if
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I was becoming someone else, as if my thoughts no longer fit my mind,
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which scared me a lot. Without a doubt, nothing that is happening
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could hold me back while everything was spinning. That' s where I found
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some school scissors. I walked out the door and you can see my best
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friend I approached her and quickly cut a big strand of her hair. She
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was very upset with me. I clearly apologized, but deep down I felt
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a satisfaction for doing that. It was as if my main purpose of the
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night was to hurt people. I enjoyed seeing the blood or some negative mishap
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that was happening at the time. Kindly, he asked me if I was
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feeling well and if I wasn' t, I' d retire from his
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party. He told me he had a very strange behavior. He probably thought
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he' d taken too much. However, there was something about her that
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I knew wasn' t like that. I decided that the most sane option
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at the time was to retire from the place. With a big headache and
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confused, I arrived in my room without understanding what had happened. I tried
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to take off my dress, but it seemed like it was getting more and
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more impregnated in my body. I didn' t understand anything and I didn
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' t want to, but it was too late and I knew that the
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next day I had to solve that issue. So, in the midst of
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my despair and tiredness of carrying on with that horrible garment. I lay down
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in my bed and fell deeply asleep. The next day, when I opened
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my eyes, I did not know the place, for clearly it was not
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in my house. It had all been a dream. I' ve never
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really made it to my room before. I looked around. It was there
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that I realized that I was in a cemetery exclusively in front of a tombstone
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of a woman, which had the name pink villegas, along with her year
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of death and birth themselves that were more than a hundred years old. For
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some strange reason, I remembered everything perfectly, so, as I tried to
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mobilize and go home, I was thinking about all the past. The night
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before, and clearly being able to take off my dress. I decided that
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the person who had at least one answer to all of this was my best
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friend, Mary, so I decided to contact her as soon as possible at
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that time. It was his mother who answered the phone. Listening to me
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and telling me she was mentally ill, she told me that her daughter was
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in bed in a hospital fighting for her life. I clearly didn' t
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understand anything, so when I got home, my mother opened the door to
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my room. He asked me what had happened. I had told her that
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I had physically assaulted my friend with scissors. That' s when I remembered
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that I had just cut a little lock off his hair. However, the
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reality had been different, since it appeared that he had used those scissors to
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injure part of his neck. Her parents had not filed a complaint against me,
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because they knew how important it was to her. However, rumors began
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to run quickly, as they all mentioned in the feast that my attitude had
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been of terror, as if some demon were taking over me. Even many
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people at the party decided to run away for everything that had happened. The
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parents had to take matters into their own hands. At the time I knew
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the logical thing was that they didn' t want to see me again in
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their life, but I wanted to see her, know she was okay.
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I couldn' t bear the fear of losing her, let alone knowing that
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I had been the cause. My parents talked to me, asked me what
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had happened and because I had done such a thing they came to such a
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great point of concern that they thought of seeking help to find out if I
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was using drugs or whether I would need to go with a psychiatrist. Evidently,
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such behaviour was not normal. I knew perfectly well that if I explained
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to them the purchase of that dress and how weird I felt that day,
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they would not believe me. So that same night I took my computer and
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they' re eating some research on the subject. I recalled that the name
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of the tombstone on the side of the date of birth and death that I
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had witnessed in the morning and was a surprise to me, because to look
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for it on the Internet I could find a dreadful story. That woman was
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wearing that same dress from that mysterious shop. The website mentioned that great anecdote
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that years later became a legend. At that time I began to ask myself
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thousands of things, as I did not know what was really happening. The
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obvious thing about that moment and that circumstance is that I had that dress that
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that woman wore in that photo and in her life maybe she had been murdered
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in that dress. That' s why he was full of blood. That
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' s when it all made sense. I didn' t really know if
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it was a bad joke or I was in trouble, because I had heard
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an anecdote about people who acquire antiques and how that energy can be transmitted easily,
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so the next day, first thing in the morning, I went to
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the store, but it was closed. The days passed and I went back
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to the same place with the same answer that that woman knew the truth and
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had really run away. I had a hard time understanding things until one day
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I could finally find that woman. I insisted that you tell me the truth,
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because at that point I was physically and mentally exhausted from everything that had
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happened and I was no longer planning to carry a guilt that didn' t
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belong to me. That' s when she confessed the truth to me.
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He told me it had been that woman' s, which was murdered by
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several men years ago. That web story was real. That woman was dedicated
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to gallant life and, after so much despair, tried to change the course
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of her life. But that was already too late, for weeks later,
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a group of men wounded her in various possible ways, until she lost her
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life just in that dress. That' s when Benita told me that the
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only option to get rid of that dress was to take it to her tombstone,
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because she had searched for it years ago, but she had never found
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it, so to get rid of it quickly, she saw that I was
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the right person. Finally, I took my things and went with that dress
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to the cemetery. Dead of fear and confused. All I wanted was to
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get rid of that terrible nightmare by miracle of life. My friend was clearly
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saved, I apologized and told her what happened and although she never believed me
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my behavior, she never was himself again, perhaps out of grief or fear,
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but I never really managed to get over a party and the popularity of
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my youth that was going on to put on the dress of a woman who
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was murdered in such a cruel way. There was always a thorn within me,
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which has kept this secret that for many months took hold of my peace
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