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Soy Víctima De Una Maldición Desde Hace Treinta Años (Recopilación De Brujeria #5) Voces De La Noche · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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There was a long season in which I was looking for a way to have
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a child. Several doctors had told me that it was very difficult, but
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that I could try fertilization to achieve it. My partner was tired. He
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came from a marriage in which he had had three children and sought to have
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a family with me too, but we had not succeeded. Desperate, I
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began to look for many solutions. Honestly, I was increasingly disappointed, because
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a lot of money had to be invested in fertility clinics in order to achieve
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this, and we didn’ t have the money to do all that.
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Just when I was in the most troublesome period of my life, where it
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seemed like all the problems were coming on me, I began to have the
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feeling of emptiness and I wasn' t happy with anything. Carlos and I
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weren' t married. They had both. We have chosen to live in
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Free Union. We spent five years of tranquility until all the problems of having
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children began to lead us to a somewhat distant relationship. Some disagreements with his
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family and even neighbors. They looked like they were going to end everything.
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One afternoon. We fought so hard that I ended up crying and left the
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house with the idea of never returning lost in my pain. I walked off
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aimlessly. I got to a far corner where I lived. Maybe I walked
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about thirty or forty minutes. I remember it was barely getting dark, so
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it shouldn' t have been more than six o' clock in the afternoon
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and I didn' t know exactly where it was. I looked everywhere.
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There I saw a tarot ad saying it was 100% effective readings. I
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said out loud the phone number that came in the ad. Sticked to the
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pole, I went back to my house muttering inside that number. If and
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already I was trying strange things, for what could happen if I tried one
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more I had never gone to be guessed fortune, perhaps if my destiny was
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to separate myself from Carlos because of everything that was going on. So,
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with a security that I' m surprised to remember myself, I came home
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with the number in my memory. When I entered directly, I wrote down
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the number in the address book that I had next to the phone and let
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Carlos say what he wanted, because I didn' t care about his apologies
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anymore. The next day I pretended I was sick. I called work,
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told my friend Norma and cheated on Carlos that I was going to sleep in
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the house to get over it as soon as I saw that everything was quieter
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on the street. I called to ask if I could go to a letter
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reading that same day and surprisingly, the woman on the line said yes.
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I wrote the address fast. I put on the first thing I found in
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clothes and went out to find the woman. When I arrived I wondered if
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what I was doing was right, because the place had scared me. It
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was an old house in the oldest area of the city, the one where
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the streets only have numbers and did not name them. The people who were
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sitting were looking at me weird. Some greeted each other when they came in
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because they knew each other. I remained silent as I moved from one side
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to the other because of the discomfort of the iron chair with plastic on the
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back, the house allowed the light to enter naturally. There were figures of
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saints everywhere. There were also Turkish eyes everywhere and the door through which one
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entered the reading was always closed. It' s been four hours. It
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was finally my turn. I was scared, but I was terrified when I
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saw the space in that little room painted entirely of navy blue. There was
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only one table in the center with two chairs and on the table a purple
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tablecloth. There was nothing else. At the end of the room there was
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a black- painted door that had a fatima hand drawn with white gis.
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When the previous consultant left, he told me to come in and close the
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door. When I walked in, the woman was gone. That' s
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why I could see the whole room in detail. I sat in the chair
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in front of the one I imagined sitting the tarotist lady. She came from
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that black door and surprised me how normal it looked. He wore sandals,
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wore a black skirt with a blouse that resembled the skin of a leopard,
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wore glasses, had blond hair and looked about sixty years old. As she
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looked at me sitting and scared, she showed up again and told me her
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name was Gloria. He asked me my name and I answered him with a
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strange feeling. In the body it was as if an intense cold seized me
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from the feet. The session began and everything was true. He told me
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about my family, He also told me about Carlos and even told me two
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or three situations that were fulfilled later with my sister. In the end I
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asked if I could be with Carlos or better throw away the idea, because
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it was more the suffering that I started to feel Because of everything that happened
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than the strength I had to keep us together she smiled as all her wrinkles
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gathered together making her skin as if they were furrows of dry ground and split.
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Besides, he didn' t have three front teeth, so he looked
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bad. That smile. She told me that I could help my child to
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be born soon I was scared to hear her and she took my right arm
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when I pulled back from the impression of her words. He spoke to me
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in a voice full of sweet sympathy to the tired, but I could not
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let go of his hand. Despite the feeling of concern his tone gave me
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when speaking, he asked me if I wanted to keep carlos. I told
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her I wasn' t sure. She told me it was my predestined love,
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as the letters announced it the problem and my doubts were because of the
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witchcraft they were doing to me. She saw in the letters that it was
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my mother- in- law who was putting her spoon into the relationship to
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get rid of me, because she didn' t want him to run out
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of children, as the former wife had moved out of state carrying the children.
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With her I told her I couldn' t be sure, that I
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didn' t understand how I could be doing witchcraft. If I didn'
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t see anything, I didn' t feel anything either. And besides,
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I had knowledge of esoteric things. I childishly thought that was to be sure,
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or at least it left me far from believing what that woman was saying
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to me. But I still decided to do what she had told me.
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I left the consultation with the idea of coming back in four days. She
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had told me that I had to go to the pantheon of da Mezquitan,
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look for the graves until the end to check one that had a white mark
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and stir the land that I saw in one of the quarry pots that had
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that tomb. It took me so long to decide to go looking. I
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went back to my job normally and even treated Carlos better to give me time
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to think if that might help me not think about reconciling with him. That
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reading began to appear foolishly and, besides, I was keeping the secret of
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that visit, so I could not tell the norm what was going on so
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that he could advise me. I braved myself on the same day that it
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was already the fourth, a Saturday that was not worked and on which I
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had to return to see Gloria to confirm what she had told me. Despite
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the fear, I lost nothing. She had promised that she would not charge
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me the next session if I could confirm to her what the letters had revealed
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to her. I arrived at the pantheon too early to stop so that many
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people could not see me I made sure that no one followed me and bought
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some flowers to give the impression that I was going to visit the person in
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the tomb. I walked for a while, I got lost in the streets
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of the place, but in the end I managed to get to the farthest
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area from the entrance. Right on the spot Gloria had pointed at me.
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It was just like the white mark the woman told me and it looked like
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a kind of rayon In one of the pots in that family crypt, I
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found a tightly tied plastic bag that didn' t pass from the palm of
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my hand. When I opened it, there was a folded paper with some
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hairs of something maybe hairs, I didn' t know well why they shed
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a tremendous oil aroma. There was also a thread tangled between the hairs and
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that paper that untangled a little bit. I was able to pull some because
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the feeling of wanting to throw up prevented me from finishing untangled that. But
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just as I looked at my first name on that paper, I dropped it
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all to the ground. I could not take my hands to my face or
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body because of the feeling of dirt in my hands, but I began to
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shake my hands trying to get rid of the sense of disgust I had.
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And inevitably, someone got to see me and I heard that he asked me
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what was wrong with me. I told him nothing. Without turning it around,
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I put the right flowers on the crypt in a hurry and walked where
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I imagined the exit was leaving that bag lying along with what I pulled out
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of it. Nobody chased me out of there crying. No one asked anything
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because he was a pantheon. I left for Gloria' s office without warning
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anyone or saying anything, although my husband knew he was just going out with
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a friend for breakfast. That afternoon was terrible for my spirit. I felt
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so tired of everything and on top of it. I had the pain of
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knowing that my husband' s family had come so far so that they could
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separate me from him. I waited in that waiting room full of chairs,
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peering all the time, every saint and symbol that was on the walls.
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I asked him goodbye or the saints to help me get out of it.
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I thought evil could not exist, so those who believed in witchcraft were capable
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of everything. And now I knew that perversity was in my husband' s
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family I told him all glory crying without holding back The echo of the room
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bounced off my whining as she tried to calm me down. He even sent
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me to bring some tea from linden that I took without thinking anything. She
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told me that I could do the least in the face of something as evil
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as that family. So he gave me two candles with different colors, almost
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like a rainbow. Then I got a saying with a pentagram. He told
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me he gave it to me. I just had to put it on and
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not take it away at all as a protective measure. I left there incredulous.
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I thought you couldn' t help me just by giving me some candles.
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I thought it best to go to church and ask the father to confess
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me so that I could take Communion and save myself from everything I had done
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or thought, but I contradicted everything I intended to do. The moment I
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decided to hang up, he said he hit me. I arrived at my
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house automatically, although I thought a thousand ways to ask for help or do
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something, I even crossed the idea of escaping from Carlos' side. I
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didn' t know how to act for the first time since we met,
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I was afraid even of him. When he came in, he got out
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of the chair to meet me. He told me he was too worried about
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me because he had left his cell phone in bed. I hadn' t
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noticed anything, I hadn' t even eaten anything, and it was weird
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to think that I only took money with me that exact one to pay for
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the candles I would use to clean up that curse and the protection saying Gloria
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had given me. Carlos apologized for the previous discussion. I didn' t
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know why I felt so docile. I was surprised that we were able to
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talk fluently that we had a good time that night, because we both talked
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a lot about how we felt, we managed to get into how we were
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going to improve the way we were coping with all the stress we felt about
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finding a child. In the end I told him that I didn' t
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want to make him feel bad, but I was reconsidering whether it was worth
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keeping us together, because all the feelings that we were going through because of
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the opinions of others were affecting me too much and although I didn' t
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mention what I had found in the pantheon if I stressed that I was very
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afraid of his family, because I felt rejected and even hated, but he
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assured me that it wasn' t so. And even though they hadn'
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t done anything but be cold with him, I didn' t want to
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wait to see what else my mother- in- law could do when she
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found out that she had found her little gift in that crypt. Despite my
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doubts, the next day we had a break from everything. We both set
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aside the problems if we had a good day, so I doubted much more
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than I was going through at night, I started to think if I could
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best talk to her with a rule. She had known a lot of things,
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so I didn' t expect the reaction she had when the next Friday
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I confessed to her all she was very upset with me in a way she
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couldn' t understand and I even asked her to explain her anger to me,
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but she was afraid that she might even be dragged into everything if she
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tried to get involved with me, so she decided she wouldn' t discuss
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supernatural or esoteric issues with me again. She asked me to just treat her
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as a co- worker. In the middle of the confusion, I never
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urned the candles I had bought and removed the staff from my neck. I
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was with the idea of praying as much as possible, asking God to give
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me a way, because I felt that I could not find a way out
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without doing anything, Carlos and I went back to a state of harmony.
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He insisted on letting us go without thinking about others, because I was no
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longer going to mention anything about having children so as not to feel pressured.
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The normality of our relationship returned, but the normality of my days disappeared,
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as I began to be a victim of night terrors. First they were very
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vivid nightmares, where I dreamed that I was persecuted by a man who had
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no face that, even though I did not speak, I heard somehow that
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he wanted to kill me for fear of nightmares. I started suffering from insomnia.
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I was trying to pretend that I was sleeping and when Carlos started snoring,
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I would stop and read or do something in the living room, waiting
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for him to arrive in the morning so I could get some sleep. If
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I fell asleep before four in the morning, it was impossible for me to
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sleep without seeing that man in my dreams. One night of insomnia, looking
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at the last messages I had sent him to the norm to apologize for not
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telling him to speak to me as before, I began to feel that there
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was unusual heat in my house. In the distance I could smell a residue
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like something. Burning, I got up from the couch and turned off the
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night lamp that lit me in my insomnia. I looked everywhere looking for the
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glow of some burning flame, but I saw nothing. Even though the aroma
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grew stronger and stronger. I turned on the little lamp again and re-
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checked the house. In the distance he listened to Carlos' snoring, so
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he kept resting quietly. I stood in half a room, turning around calmly,
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trying to know where the scent came from. In the distance, I
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began to hear a rattling as if something was moving, as if some metal
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was being moved. After that, some kind of cut murmurs were heard from
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the little courtyard in terror. I figured someone was stealing gas tanks or some
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TV antenna. So I grabbed the phone from the house and held it in
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my hands to immediately warn if I saw anyone doing anything suspicious from the patio
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window. When I approached, the sound disappeared and I looked out the window
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for a while looking for any clues, I turned back to the armchair when
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I felt my hair pulled out the back. Immediately, I took my hands
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to my head as I looked back through the window. It was impossible for
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anything to grab my hair, for there was no one but me there,
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with all the doors and windows closed. The moment I kept moving my hair
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loose, scaring whatever it was that I had felt, I dropped the phone
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while I was letting go of a choked scream and it made a sound so
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loud that it woke Carlos, who panicked and ran to find me. When
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he called me and I didn' t answer, I felt twice that ghostly
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touch, a lump on my shoulder and the last one on my stomach.
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I started repeating over and over again, my God, without being able to
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understand what was happening to me, my husband suddenly came out of the room
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and that' s when he found me wandering around while wrapping me with my
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own arms. Full of terror. He came to me to ask me what
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was going on, but I couldn' t articulate a word. I let
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my tears out and we both heard the sound blows to light the burners on
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the stove. Carlos stopped asking and instinctively hugging us as we looked towards the
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kitchen, while observing the darkness that invaded the house, the one that did
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not allow us to distinguish what was happening in the stove. I almost fainted
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when we saw how one of the burners lit up and among the flames an
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amorphous face that smiled terribly was drawn. After that a glass blow surprised us.
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We both stood as a stone for a few minutes, but reacting quickly
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ran into the kitchen lighting the light to check that the gas keys were not
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open. So I saw that the glass in the oven was scorched and when
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I opened the door to verify what had happened, I saw the plastic bag
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in which I had put the candles that gave me melted glory with half broken
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candles. Carlos asked me what that was and inevitably, I had to tell
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him everything that had happened with the visit to read me the letters and even
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though he did not believe me half a word, he let me light the
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half broken candles. In the midst of terror. I thought it would be
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the only way to get rid of what was going on, because the aroma
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has burned with continued in the environment. We remained silent as we watched the
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flame of the candles tremble, I dared not say anything. It seemed like
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Carlos was very upset and I tried many times to break the silence, but
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I just couldn' t with the pressure that he was making looking at me
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with those looks that seemed to ask me to get out of his sight,
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I figured it would be best to go to another room or leave the kitchen
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to let him think about everything I had told him. The moment I stopped,
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the bell that was on the stove came off and fell on the candles
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that we lit on the burners. Carlos jumped back, stopping from the table
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we had for lunch in the kitchen. Then he looked at me with a
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face of terror and asked me what was going on. I told him I
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didn' t know. Then he went to me like crazy. He kept
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insisting. I was insisting on telling her what was happening to me, but
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I didn' t know she wanted me to answer her, so I just
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told her that nothing was wrong with me. I was just scared because I
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didn' t understand what had happened either. He told me several times that
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that wasn' t what I was talking about and he grabbed my nightgown and
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put it in front of my eyes. There was blood on it, but
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I didn' t understand how I hadn' t felt that bleeding. I
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looked at my legs and imagined that I could have started my period, but
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I thought of the date of the month and immediately discarded that idea thinking about
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what we had seen or why it had fallen. The kitchen bell was the
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least of our problems. So, without saying a word immediately, we decided
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to go to the hospital, as he gradually looked at how blood drops were
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more frequent. After a night of nightmare, the next day we learned that
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we would be parents and we didn' t know if we were happy or
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worried, because with what I had told him, that I found in the
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pantheon, with what the tarota had said and what had happened, we didn
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' t know it was safe. At that time, my husband went to
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my job to take the disability the next morning, when I was discharged the
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next two days we went to stay in a hotel. We didn' t
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tell anyone the news, we didn' t know what to do. So
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Carlos asked me to take him to read the letters to find out what was
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going on and incredibly. I was the one who told him I was crazy
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to believe that that was going to help us. Me. He said that
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he had already seen that face before that deformed one that had been drawn among
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the flames of the stove. A few days ago, he had seen a
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deformed man look at him from a corner in the parking lot of his work,
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when he was incredibly reversed. Everything seemed to agree with his vision,
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my visit, namely my fortune and even the coincidence of having a child soon,
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if I got rid of the object hidden in the cemetery to a stos
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we agreed to go with Gloria on Saturday that he worked half day. I
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wouldn' t wait at the hotel ready as soon as it happened for me
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to go in a cab to stop me from making any effort. I'
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d like to say that we felt better when we arrived, but when we
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arrived, he was already waiting for us. Mrs Gloria at the entrance said
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she already knew what was going on. It was like everything was unreal.
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She told us that Carlos' mom had made a pact with the remains of
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the dead in that place to be able to separate us, because she asked
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for a grandson Male either way or with anyone else. Those words made sense
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to both of us. He recognized that his mother had unusual practices for a
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woman who spent all day in the temple with her prayer circle. Besides,
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he knew that she was secretly frequenting someone every once in a while after that
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visit. There were changes in the house like new mirrors or he threw away
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things that were in perfect condition. I was thinking about Carlos' ex-
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wife and the three girls who had a bad relationship with Carlos' family.
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Moreover, that might be the reason why her ex decided to move to another
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State. Gloria told us that she couldn' t do anything with what we
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were carrying, that she only helped by giving readings or some utensils to protect
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her customers. But if we wanted to get out of it, he could
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recommend us to a friend of his, a man who worked with that kind
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of heavy stuff, but who did it from the light. We never contacted
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Carlos' mother again. We came closer to my parents to ask for a
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little help because we decided to move as soon as possible. We started a
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long struggle against that evil and, apparently, after six years we won.
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I' ve been a victim of a curse for thirty years. Now I
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live only at the mercy of the spirit that torments me. I know my
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death is near. Yeah, it doesn' t matter what I say or
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do in the end is where I' m going and who' s coming
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for me, that kid who' s been making my life miserable, leaving
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me just making everyone think I' m crazy and by the end of my
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time on earth, he' s gonna be there. Even someone told me
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that after my death he' s going to torment me. I' m
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five years old that I haven' t been back to the mental hospital.
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I also left the neurotic or alcoholic help circles, because nothing has helped me.
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I' m not looking for company or understanding anymore either. I'
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m already old. I know what I did. I also imagine no one
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will say a prayer for me. Those who will least worry where I fall
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dead will be my children, whom I have not seen in forty years and
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who have managed to keep hidden so that they cannot even ask their forgiveness.
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I was born in the fifties back in a village on the Chapala riverside in
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Jalisco. I grew up in a big family where we all worked fishing or
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selling the goldfish in the mallecon where we had a stall made of wooden boxes.
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I was a poor kid. Together with my two brothers we suffered from
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many shortages living together in a two- room house, a large kitchen space,
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with a wooden dining room and a stove. We knew death soon when
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a sister died at the age of five of scarlet fever. After that,
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my dad went to the bush when he started with the symptoms and never came
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back. That' s how we knew death and fear because my mom found
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herself a man soon to live with him, because she couldn' t live
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with her four children. By coming together, we both became two living brothers
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among all. I don' t frequent any of them and I don'
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t know if they live. The new man in the house was a bastard.
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He found no other way to say it, so most of us left
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the house early. I didn' t look for my brothers. I only
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went back to that horrible house once. In the year of eighty- three,
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when my mother sent a letter to warn that she had cancer. I
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went to say goodbye to some of my brothers, but I never asked for
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their addresses, or their data, or I was interested if they had a
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family. For that time. I was almost 30 years old. I was
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still without the money I wanted, but I was less fucked up than the
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other members of my family, so I played dumb to keep them from knowing
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my business. At that time I was better at money and work, because
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I was fortunate enough to be sponsored by a gentleman when I went to work
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on a plantation. The Lord helped me for that. Then I moved to
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the DF and in the end I went to live in Queretaro, there in
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the capital I had a moved life, many good and bad experiences with destitute
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people, other guys who had to sell themselves to find fortune or were the
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senders of the affectionate ones of the place. In short, I saw the
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worst of the worst of the surroundings of one of the largest markets that exist.
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I arrived with a tumult of people in a truck to work in a
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market. I had gone in sixty- five to work in michoacán at the
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lemon plantation. Hence a rancher, named Don ferme, took love because I
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was trying harder than the others. He saw me potential. After two years
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of work, he asked me if I wanted to help him move merchandise in
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the market, in the famous market of Sonora. I didn' t think
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twice the next day I was on the road looking for fortune, headed for
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the huge capital city and only wore a backpack in old clothes that I wore
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as I had been very poor. I had always had the idea that one
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day I would be able to buy everything I wanted and sleep in a room
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that I didn' t have to share with others there in the market I
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knew things that I never imagined I saw that I thought didn' t exist.
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In addition to seeing the railroad to a Chinese person and other things,
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I knew witchcraft. At that place I learned by running errands for the owners
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of several premises. I realized that there are many people who seek to tie
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up their partner, take away their inheritance from family members or even have fortune
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and health at any cost. The stories of the people there were chilling.
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Sometimes I was afraid to know what they were doing or what they were telling
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me they were doing to achieve what people wanted. I didn' t believe
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in God, but because I had well- instilled my mother' s good
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habits, I never stopped going to Mass. Even today, in my old
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age, I keep going to talk to my mother. There on the market
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I became friends with Doña Merced, a lady who did rituals of many types
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and who quickly detected as the lady with more money than there. So,
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as I was looking to earn good tips, I became an expert at liking
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convenient people. Among them was Merced. I spent many years working, making
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special moves for my godfather driving vans with products to other states and so I
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got completely into the life of the markets, meeting countless people in love,
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of bad girls, living as I wanted on the margins of a law that
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talked with us, after giving some money for their services to my employer.
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The bad news is that the administration, so to speak, changed. Don
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fer died in unclear conditions, his children ran to the United States and I
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was out of work. From my contacts I managed to find a place to
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live with the little money I had left, I opened a place of fruits
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and vegetables that I decided to put in keretaro to get a little off the
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radar of many acquaintances. That' s when I was twenty- six.
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After that came raquel to my life with her my two children, Rodrigo and
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Roberto. Unfortunately, when they were kids, I started with a very bad
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streak in the business. I began to eat the clientele a supermarket that was
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near the colony where I had the business and gradually impacted on my life.
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I stopped being calm because I began to live the lack. Again I left
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and decided to get to the capital. I had decided to get out of
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my fucking poverty once and for all, and as I had already tried more
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than ten years, to do it the hard way, because now I was
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going to do it the hard way. I couldn' t lose more than
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I had already lost, and even my family resented the lack of money in
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the house and it was something that I wasn' t going to let happen
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to my children They weren' t going to end up in a place where
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I grew up. I got to the market in Sonora. Looking for Mrs
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Merced, as the acquaintances told her, I met her daughter, who had
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begun to help in the business and after a brief talk, she told me
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that, as a friend of her mother, they would welcome me to the
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main house. It was a huge place dedicated exclusively to doing witchcraft work.
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That house had pens with animals for different purposes. I also had a warehouse
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space that I was told had more instruments and herbs to do the work.
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Against everything people can imagine, this house was very clean. There were only
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things distributed in a strange way. There were not many things, but if
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they had a large sofa to wait for the customers to whom they provided us
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with water or food as we wanted. When the old worship came, it
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was well- dressed. I or I gave myself that I had missed and
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we started to talk about the past. After a few hours remembering the days
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of the market, I told him bluntly that I needed his services, that
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things were going wrong with my business. She was willing to help me.
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He told me he was even going to give me a discount for being known
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close. He asked me to come back in a week. He also asked
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me to leave a hole in the floor one big enough to put a soap
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in. I obeyed without thinking about anything but fixing my situation. He had
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faith in that woman in her money and success more than one important person he
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had seen on television or in the newspaper. I had gone through the treatments
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of that lady herself she had told me many experiences with politicians or radio drivers.
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Convinced in mercy, I returned the following week, no matter the problems
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with my wife. After receiving that velvet bag, with the famous cure for
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my salty business, I devoted myself to working night and day to recover,
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but above all to increase my wealth. I have to say, that was
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it. Money flowed, business multiplied, just as lucky blows were real my
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new wealth. My dreams as a poor child had been fulfilled. That'
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s why I lived as king. I got carried away by the clear good
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fortune that always well protected by Merced' s instructions. It was twenty years
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of unbridledness and the women paraded in front of me as I see a letter
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to select a good wine. My kids got into good colleges. My wife
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was an envied woman. Everyone wanted my fortune inside in family relationships everything was
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wrong. My wife and I faked our happy marriage. The kids were barely
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talking to me. They became adults before I could figure it out. Then
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they began to be ashamed of my provenance. In my insanity again rich I
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opened ten premises. I got more into casino business and started the drinking hobby.
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Right on that cusp of wine. Worst of all, the first violent
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attack he gave me, I kicked the dog' s life out of the
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house. My wife ended up with a broken ankle and I went to jail,
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but as they couldn' t calm me down, I was taken to
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medical facilities. I remember clearly the sense of uncontrollable anger that followed me that
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I could not stop for anything without wanting to become dependent on the medications that
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began to give me. I liked the feeling in the body and started taking
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some doses, missing them. All this stuff that I' m telling happened
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in psychiatric lock- ups two or three times a month, until one day
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my family world collapsed when I was discharged. After one of those insanity crises
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for overloading me with alcohol pills, I came home furious at not being received
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outside the hospital properly. There was nothing. The house was helpless. Only
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a rush note was thrown on the desk he used to work that room.
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My special room, was intact with the sad note, where I was required
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not to look for them or press charges. They vanished, but I didn
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' t try to find them. In my pride I threw all my despair
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at the parties with the supposed friends I had. Business continued well. My
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relationship with mercy was wonderful. I gave him his monthly money. She gratefully
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sent me telegrams telling me that everything was going according to the requests she made
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convinced of me immortality, my wealth and that the world was mine. I
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committed the recklessness of smoking inside the premises and the flames consumed three quarters of
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my main place in Querétaro. I wasn' t even close to knowing that
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that was the beginning of a long fall, which I still feel. When
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the firefighters turned everything off, the heaviest work came and that was cleaning up
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the place. Evidently, I wasn' t going to take care of those
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gross poor jobs, so I left it all to a shawl that had gotten
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me out there in the market, just as Don Fer had sponsored me.
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I wanted to do my good deed for another poor brat following in the footsteps
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of that great man. Unfortunately, that brat wasn' t as smart as
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me, so when he picked up everything, he found the little bag buried
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in the place, decided to open it, and then got a call that
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forensics were on the premises because that bag contained the skull of an unborn baby
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by its own conclusions. Without investigating anything and arming a case out of nowhere,
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I ended up being the one who ended up with a child' s
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life. I was accused of having committed a crime and, in addition to
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hiding the proceeds of it. There were a lot of things about me that
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I got a poor worker pregnant and then I had her aborted. They said
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that she had cared fondly for the little stem and even before she was disappeared
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because of my mandate, she had hidden the remains of my sin in the
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premises that I was so eager to brag immediately and by magic, I became
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the subject of conversation in the neighborhood. Even my note was in the yellow
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papers. I had nothing left but to run away with the money I had
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kept in a special place. I could falsify some documents, I left everything
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and couldn' t carry more than a small suitcase. P or little missed,
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I fled to the only place where they wouldn' t find me easily,
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and that was the Federal District. It would be like looking for a
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needle in a haystack. There it was impossible to ask from house to house
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until I came, knowing that if I went with mercy I could get it
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all back. I managed to contact her, but she did not want to
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receive me after a series of discussions with her market employee, as her daughter
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was no longer there. That' s where they gave me a phone number
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I could contact. Only once did they tell me that I should call her
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at four o' clock the next day, she would know it was me.
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She swallowed my anxiety all day, then, all night and morning,
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but at last I was able to talk to the Great Witch. At the
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first bell, she answered without letting me speak. It was quick and concise.
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He told me never to look for her or take care of Missing Me
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He also pointed out my future as the worst I could have fallen into.
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He told me that the bag did contain a small fetus, an anime in
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charge of taking care of my money, linked to my fortune, only so
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that I could give myself the great life. That little boy for my stupidity,
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he had been freed from his bondage and would take revenge by being used
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in that way blaspheming against his possible life for the commission I had made him
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without anything else. Apart from that horror story, she hung up on me.
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Indeed, I couldn' t even get near the market and the real
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horror began, the one that even you can' t imagine, because you
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' ve never been able to think about it. The dead forgive no less
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those who make covenants with the devil by using them. The price is high.
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I never knew until then. The boy came just five hours after the
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old Witch told me he was leaving me to my fate, hiding in a
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bad- death hotel, right in the opposite direction to Sonora' s market.
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I wasn' t going to risk being found, so I was thinking
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of closing down for a few weeks, being far away from the places where
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they could look for me, asking my acquaintances about my nighttime routines, I
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got hidden in different clothes, new glasses and a cap. He brought some
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canned things to eat. Without leaving the place, I got comfortable watching the
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nine o' clock news. I just left the light on next to the
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bed. The room was illuminated by the television on. I threw myself into
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bed hoping to fall asleep. As I laughed at myself, I could see
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that the light had had a rare ripple. I looked at the lamp,
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but that' s all. I did not pay attention to the curtain in
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the window until many minutes later, because after a slight stretch of the back,
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I noticed that there were some feet to the lid between the curtains.
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I remembered and apparently I had always seen that small lump between the fabrics I
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stopped from jumping, I took the gun I had hidden under the bed and
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kicked the curtains. These deflated, they lost their shape, leaving their free
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movement in the air. I sat on the bedside thinking it was that.
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I looked at TV and by an unknown force, the gun was taken from
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my hands. He had fallen with a part under the bed. I shook
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my hands thinking of shaking off the evil I felt from that ghostly touch.
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I wanted to ignore my instincts that told me there was something under the bed,
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but I cared little because that supposed I was afraid of the typical monster
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under the bed. While watching the television, I put my hand between my
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feet to reach for the gun and my skin rose when I felt that one
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hand touched the back of mine, I did not look down. I kept
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my eyes on television. Then I heard a cry. I was the whining
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of a little child I am faithful, believing in those who appeared. They
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' ve always been everywhere, but it was the first time I heard one
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I slowly pulled my hand out of my feet. Without moving your gaze.
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I put myself in a normal position as if I watched television and asked from
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within for God to protect me. A laugh was heard behind me and my
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nerves failed me. I turned to look what it had been. That'
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s when I saw a blue hand scurry from my right shoulder to my back,
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disappearing. Although I could feel something on my back on the defensive and
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throwing pestilences I started to take off my shirt, unbuttoned my belt, pulled
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my shirt off the inside and checked in the mirror of the bathroom that was
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attached to my back. Fingermarks drew a line on my back. I didn
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' t know how to deal with that, but the best thing I could
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think of was to start praying and it was when, the more I tried
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to say prayers the less I remembered the words that so many years had taken
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me to learn in the catechism. The laughter continued to irritate the nerves in
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anger, as was the custom in me. I started hitting everything in the
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room and there began another uncontrollable attack that left my fingers bleeding while tearing everything
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apart. I came to slip with the curtains that I myself had pulled out
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of its place and ended up lying on the side, stuck on the floor
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with a part of the torso leaning on the bed. There I felt how
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my forces abandoned me and the forces of something else took hold of my limbs.
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First I didn' t feel my fingers, then my legs. In
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the end it reached my throat and I felt that I had difficulty breathing I
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fell to the ground without being able to make my body obey me and the
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black specter in the form of a child, began to pull his arms out
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of every corner of my body. I saw a hand come out of my
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armpit, then from the side of one of my legs, then from above
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my head and so on, feeling those hands planted on me. The TV
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light blinked, the signal had been cut off, and I would come and
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see those hands squeezing at me, leaving in my skin the pain of a
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person who was being torn apart and even though I screamed there was not a
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single sound coming out of my mouth. For me they spent hours in that
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torture of childish laughter and hands with small sharp nails that pierced my flesh,
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making me ask for death over and over again. The reality was that he
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had been convulsing over and over again, until a neighbor complained about the noise
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and called the local manager. Fortunately, because of my false identification, I
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ended up in the nearby hospital without being detected by my true identity. So
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began this ordeal the one where that child chases me without rest, harming my
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body, causing me to convulse, calling me in and out of psychiatric care.
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For years I have lived in poverty and also as a time worker to
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be able to eat the minimum to stay alive, because despite my attempts to
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take my life, I have never been able to do so. Death will
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come for me. Maybe that' s better than all this pain or the
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beatings of those who claim to care for me in mental institutions. I don
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' t know what' s worse if this torture in life or the one
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waiting for me in death. I don' t know exactly why or why.
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My family decided to make a jewel tied to a relative by means of
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his ashes. But it' s not a nice thing to have to inherit
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that. If you ask me, the story I know is that my grandmother
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' s mom had decided to burn. The body of the firstborn who died
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from something like stomach cancer. My grandmother' s brother, a young man
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named Enrique Diaz, who was barely twenty years old. When he died he
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had gone quickly and, as he was the most loved by his parents,
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left a terrible void in the family, so they had made a decision to
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keep him with them. They cremated the body, sent it into an urn,
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and stayed in the family home for many years. My grandmother Socorro tells
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me that she usually lived with those ashes just like my four guys and it
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was like she wanted to remain a part of everything. That tradition or normality
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remained about twenty years. I don' t know how to call them until
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Uer that it was decided to buy the family crypt where it could be deposited,
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as my great- grandparents knew that they could soon all be together in
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that place. After those years of savings, he was sent to make a
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crypt for all the members of the family and put my great uncle there Then
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his father Chuy followed him and in the end my great- grandmother, Margarita.
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But there' s also room for my four uncles and my mom.
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My grandmother said that she loved her brother very much, for since she had
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been born ten years after him, she had always behaved like almost a father
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to her. She always took care of her, went out with her for
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walks along the street, took her to the movies or when she felt sick.
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He was the first to take care of the. Even though he had
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a job at the family chick shop. She told me that Quique cared much
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more for her than her mother did for other children and always helped her with
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her homework. In addition, he was the exemplary son for my great-
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grandmother, who loved him very much for his beautiful character. He was so
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loved by my grandmother that she had asked her mother if she could have a
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memory of him before he passed into the family crypt. Yes, they used
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ashes from the deceased. In this way he was sent to make the reliquary
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with the image of Enrique and became my grandmother' s 28th birthday present.
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After that, she and the locket were inseparable. She kept it so jealously
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that my mother tells me she was never allowed to touch it without her mother
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carrying it around her neck. The tragic story of my grandmother' s brother
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is not, as others would think, that causes a spirit not to rest
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in peace. Even I don' t know how everything became my nightmare.
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His death was quick. One day, Grandpa Uncle Henry began to get very
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thin. She couldn' t sleep well, she couldn' t eat without
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feeling pain in her stomach, so the great- grandmother decided to take him
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to see the doctor. He didn' t come back from there. He
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had been taken to the hospital and four days later died My grandmother says that
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she dreamed of her brother the day he died, he had gone to say
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goodbye to her so that she would not suffer much from his death. After
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his death he remained leaning on his brother. She celebrated her birthday, made
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her altars on the day of the dead, and all the time, even
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what I vaguely remember from my childhood, she talked to him. That seemed
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normal to me for old people to talk to their deceased relatives, but when
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I grew up, I realized it wasn' t very normal for us to
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say. When Grandma died she was put in the family crypt, in the
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same space as her brother' s little box. She had done all she
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could to rest beside her beloved brother. My mom accepted her brother' s
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will along with all my uncles, but the will raised a lot of problems.
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Like me, I was only eight years old when she died, I
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remember nothing, but my mother tells me that there were many fights between her
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and her brothers, Pepe Luis and Chuy, because they had not liked the
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distribution of the goods, especially the fact that she had inherited the reliquary from
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her mother. Everyone in the family knew the stories of Enrique, the things
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he did some stories about his way of being so nice, how handsome he
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was also how smart he was. Some letters were even kept from him to
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his parents where he wrote verses for his birthdays. Despite all that, few
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knew that he seemed to be hurting in the hallways of the house. My
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cousins and I always told horror stories about the figure of the dead uncle grandfather,
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because, even though it was very normal for our parents to see him
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as almost a saint, we had always been inspired by terror. In the
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season when the grandmother died, the reliquary went into a box, in the
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center of the room of my great- grandparents' house, in which it
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was demarcated by lawyers how the inheritance would be distributed. That' s where
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my uncle Chui lived with his wife Alma, because they had taken care of
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my grandparents years before they died. My cousins, Luisa and Adriana, lived
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there together with Clara, my uncle Pepe' s daughter. Then they began
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to tell us the first stories about the Cursed Reliquary. As Clara was the
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greatest. He would have been about twelve or thirteen years old at that time.
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Then he followed Adriana, eleven years old, and Luisa, ten years
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old, the same age as me. They told me that in the night
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when I was leaving the bathroom, they saw a man sitting at the table
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where the box of the locket was. The first time they had seen him
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was one day that Luisa woke up in the morning and went to fetch water.
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Passing through the hall to the thing, he glanced by chance straight into
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the center of the room. There he saw something big on the table like
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a shadow, but he didn' t wait to confirm what it was and
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started screaming as he ran into my uncles' room. The second time they
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had seen him had been the day of all the saints. Clara fainted when
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she looked at the skinny man standing next to her. Seeing her sleep,
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she woke up from a small sleep of rest. After she finished helping in
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the house, she felt someone standing next to her and when she opened her
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eyes, she found the completely black figure of a man. His eyes were
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completely black, as it seemed that only his empty bowls were empty without expression
52:44
or lips on that face. The stories went on. Then Chui, Carlos,
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Pedro and Alfonso were born, who began to be terrified by the stories
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we all told about the house of the great- grandparents, as they were
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the youngest. While we were living a normal childhood. Our parents didn'
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t get along with each other, especially soul, my uncle Chui' s
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wife, because she accused my mom of wanting to steal the locket more than
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once until just a few months. I knew what was going on with the
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inheritance. It turns out that this locket had been made of pure silver with
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endings in gold and also, inside it had a bit of Henry' s
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ashes, accompanied by a piece of my grandmother' s hair. That locket
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was known to the family as the symbol of the family, but above all,
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they said it had the power to bring good fortune to those who used
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it. In the family it was known that the reliquary cared for and gave
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wealth if you asked Henry for his protection. That was something the younger ones
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didn' t know. There was an agreement with all her and my mom
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' s brothers about the use of that reliquary, as no one could know
53:59
what her putting up was doing that relic. The forbidden story was that that
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necklace had the power to grant things to the family. After months of fighting
54:08
over that locket. The family situation began to have very bad basons. My
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uncle Chuya got sick of diabetes and ended up in the hospital very serious.
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Little by little, each brother began to see strange things in their homes,
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and even my unbeliever mother said she could see her mother in her sleep asking
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her to take care of Chui. Despite some appearances at my other uncles'
54:35
house, no one did anything or my mom wanted to do anything for the
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enmity that had arisen with my aunt soul. Family fights increased. We saw
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with clear fear and I, like the claims, went up in tune.
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That' s why we learned to take the kids somewhere else so they wouldn
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' t see the argument. One afternoon we were all gathered together because my
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aunt, soul A, had called to ask them for help in my uncle
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' s care. Soon they began to argue and we decided clearly and I
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took all the children to go and lock us up in one of the rooms
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to watch TV. When he took Peter’ s hands, he immediately began
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to cry. All the other kids started screaming and threw themselves into Clara'
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s arms I didn' t know what happened, but I felt as I
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started dripping blood from my nose without stopping I looked up to talk to my
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mom and saw that tall man standing in black. The silhouette looked at me
55:36
without eyes. I knew I was nailing his eyesight and I began to feel
55:39
a terrible headache. Then I saw him move a little from the background wall
55:44
to which he was attached. After that, he started winding slowly approaching,
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but apparently, no one could see him more than me. I couldn'
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t scream or say anything. I felt like I was completely in a slumber.
55:58
It was impossible to turn away the sight of that long man who seemed
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to meander while slowly tilting his head in an impossible way for a human,
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I looked at a smile to open as if it were a wound to his
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face, a cut on the right side of his face. That man had
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the chauvinous smile, and as he watched her move, trying to open the
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darkness, he blinded my eyes, making me see nothing. They tell me
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that after a few minutes of remaining unresponsive to everyone' s calls, I
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fell to the ground without warning with my nose, mouth and dress full of
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blood. When I woke up from that blackout, my parents immediately left to
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take me to the hospital and, apparently, the diagnosis was heat stroke.
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No one understood anything that had happened, but my parents’ concern did not
56:52
last long either. That is why serious problems began. My uncle had fallen
56:58
into a coma inexplicably and suddenly. It seemed like it was all part of
57:02
the process I had for high sugar disease, but I never really knew what
57:07
happened. One Tuesday, after the discussion in which I suddenly bled had called
57:14
my mother to inform me of her brother' s condition, she told me
57:19
if I was going to be alone waiting for my dad to come so I
57:22
could take care of myself. I was fine, I didn' t have
57:27
any more symptoms of anything after that bleeding, but I hadn' t told
57:30
anyone that I started having nocturnal fears. It was horrible to even feel that
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the night was near, as little by little I was entering into my thoughts.
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The man with the crooked smile. When I was lying in bed,
57:45
I felt it close. Sometimes I could see my hair moving slowly and I
57:49
trembled with horror at the fact that that dark entity came looking for me and
57:52
was even able to touch my hair for playing brave. I ended up in
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the hospital again, but this time because of a panic attack, my mother
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had left around five in the afternoon. The idea was to wait for my
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dad two hours until he got home from work, but apparently my mother had
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not been able to locate him to tell him that I had been left alone
58:17
in the house and he had had a complication in the office. That'
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s how he got here till ten o' clock at night. I was
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locked in the neighbor' s bathroom and the paramedics were trying to reason with
58:29
me. If I' m honest, I don' t know exactly what
58:34
happened, but here' s what I know. That thing opened the door
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to my house looking for me I was sitting in the dining room with the
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TV on. I was doing my homework while I was waiting for time to
58:45
pass. The night had fallen. So I remember turning on all the lights
58:51
in the house so nothing could be in the shadows. That way, I
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would know when that man arrived after a while, I started to hear a
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few little bumps on each door of the house and stopped to investigate what it
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was when they started turning off the lights. Little by little, I tried
59:08
to turn off the lighters to avoid being in the dark, but it was
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inevitable. The darkness filled the apartment where I lived with the feeling that I
59:19
was tightening my chest. I started to feel like I was in danger.
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Breathing was accelerating and I even thought it would be a good idea to go
59:28
out one of the windows no matter how high I was. The temples beat
59:32
me making a terrible noise like a beep in my ears. Then I saw
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it in my clear mind as if it were in front of me, even
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though it was outside, I felt it coming to the door and whispering my
59:45
name. Then the knob turned I screamed. I started running to the doors
59:50
trying to lock myself up. I got dizzy because of the lack of air
59:54
and fell on the table. I took a fruit tree and I think I
59:58
threw it at the door because I entered the shadows that covered everything I could
1:00:04
hear it breathe through that crooked mouth. He was like a wounded animal.
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He was complaining. I came to the door without knowing how I was running
1:00:12
towards the light of the lamp lit at the entrance of the apartments. As
1:00:16
the access door was closed, I threw myself on the floor to cry Julia
1:00:21
to the neighbor. She listened to me and went into her house because she
1:00:23
told me something. Also, as I was talking about calling my parents,
1:00:28
I could see in the reflection of the door to the dark presence behind me,
1:00:32
right behind my back I swear to God he said my name, I
1:00:37
panicked and ended up in the bathroom. After breaking some things, throw some
1:00:43
things away. Then I began to feel the blood dripping from my nose,
1:00:46
so I went to the bathroom. The rest is confusing. They opened the
1:00:51
door at some point and I was clinging to the bathroom cup with the feeling
1:00:55
that I was going to die. The paramedics told my parents that there was
1:01:00
bleeding from the nose due to the attack, because my blood vessels were very
1:01:05
thin in that area. Evidently, I was released soon with the medical note
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I was referring to a psychologist. When we were arriving at the doors of
1:01:15
the apartment tower. My dad turned to the apartment and told me that he
1:01:21
had left all the lights on and at that moment he jumped back. He
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had seen us as a completely black man, as a shadow, watching us
1:01:30
enter the tower. He told my mom that something was going on, because
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he couldn' t see his eyes, nor recognizable factions. It was like
1:01:39
a deep black shadow looking hidden in the curtains. My mom thought worry was
1:01:45
making my dad see visions, and as I scolded him for being so suggestable,
1:01:51
we went up to the apartment. We were just waiting for the inexplicable.
1:01:58
No one explains how not even the cops my parents called to alert them
1:02:02
to a possible robbery. The apartment had footprints everywhere made from node or dirt.
1:02:12
There were some family photos thrown out. Two drawers were open and some
1:02:16
money was lying on the floor full of hair. The worst was in my
1:02:22
room. There were signs that something had burned. The ashes were everywhere and
1:02:28
the bed was covered with hands, huge hands with long nails. My bed
1:02:34
was covered with a blanket of those that are of polar fabric, those that
1:02:37
are very soft to the touch and that you can leave marked your fingers when
1:02:43
you pass hands between the cloth, for it looks like thousands of hairs that
1:02:47
cover it like it was a dark pink color. That blanket could clearly see
1:02:52
those claws. I have to admit that my knees trembled when the cops blamed
1:02:58
me, but I thought I had had a teenage boot and that' s
1:03:02
why I had planned that, also running it that they had no idea how
1:03:08
I did it or when, because they didn' t fit the times in
1:03:12
the neighbors' story. They made sure to hear noises in the department after
1:03:16
the ambulance took me to the emergency services, but the cops refused to understand
1:03:22
that. After that night of terror, none of us wanted to stay in
1:03:28
the room and went to my uncle Alfonso' s house. There the youngest
1:03:30
child told me that he too could see the smiling man crying. He told
1:03:37
me to please don' t take him home. Again, my mom heard
1:03:40
that and, scared, asked me more details about the man. I told
1:03:45
him about the first time we' d seen him at Grandma' s house
1:03:49
and how he' d scared us before. Then I told him of the
1:03:53
day I saw him when he bled my nose, as well as the terrible
1:03:58
nightmares I had had after that or. Fortunately, my parents decided to believe
1:04:03
what I was saying and, instead of starting to see where they were going
1:04:06
to take me to fix my mind, we went to Grandma' s house
1:04:11
to talk to Auntie Soul. I wasn' t there, so we waited
1:04:15
to see her. My mom contacted her on the phone and asked her to
1:04:19
come to the house because they had to talk about some things that had happened
1:04:26
to keep my uncle from staying alone my dad offered to take care of him
1:04:30
all afternoon in what we were talking to my aunt It was so I found
1:04:33
out that there were problems with my grandmother' s inheritance. Aunt Alma asked
1:04:38
everyone to sell their part of the house so she could have the money to
1:04:42
help her recover my uncle. None of the brothers wanted to. Now my
1:04:47
mother was asking who she had sent to scare us into the house to convince
1:04:54
us to sell her share. It should be mentioned that Aunt Alma might have
1:05:00
had a small amount of money saved, but apparently she didn' t touch
1:05:03
it at all. Or that' s what my father secretly told me.
1:05:06
Once I was sitting on the couch while they were arguing in the distance.
1:05:13
My cousins watched the discussion hidden in the kitchen door and even though they would
1:05:16
signal me to go with them, I couldn' t get away from that
1:05:20
place. The words were transformed into screams, the screams into struggles. My
1:05:28
aunt soul accused my mother of thief for taking Grandma' s reliquary. She
1:05:32
told him she hadn' t done that. My aunt told him that then
1:05:36
where I was, because I had a missing time and was doing very well
1:05:42
for my parents. Economically, she really believed that the reliquary possessed the power
1:05:47
to protect the family and wanted her husband to use it to save himself from
1:05:51
death. The struggles continued and I tried to run to my cousins when they
1:05:58
yelled at me, but all the screaming or it stopped when we saw that
1:06:00
one of the chairs moved, preventing me from stepping out of that fight we
1:06:06
were all still incredulous about what had happened. When I reacted, I immediately
1:06:13
knew that again I was going to be chased by that shadow and began to
1:06:16
ask for help. The second. My mother screamed and said nothing happened to
1:06:20
calm me down. But just then a blow made him fall sideways to the
1:06:26
ground. We didn' t see anything, though. I knew that it
1:06:30
was holding my hair and I wanted to pull it out of its claws,
1:06:35
but a pull made me slide down the floor about half a metre. My
1:06:40
mother was trying to protect me, but I didn' t understand that anyone
1:06:45
saw anything. But it was still clear that something had hit me. My
1:06:49
cousins, Clara and Luisa, were yelling at their mom to stop, but
1:06:54
she told them she wasn' t the one she had done. That.
1:06:57
Later, the locket fell from the second pine to the first pine tree,
1:07:01
remaining close to where we were. My mother and I felt so afraid combined
1:07:05
with a sense of despair and created my mind collapse. That' s why
1:07:11
I passed out. When I woke up, two days had passed. I
1:07:15
was in a hospital bed with my dad next to me. I asked him
1:07:19
what had happened to him. I asked my mom about the shadow and my
1:07:23
cousins. He hugged me to calm me down. He told me everything was
1:07:28
going to be fine, but from that moment on he was never going to
1:07:31
have contact with my mother' s family again. Since that day I have
1:07:38
never seen the shadow man again. My mother told me she' d done
1:07:41
such a bad thing. My aunt soul that involved my late uncle grandfather'
1:07:45
s own ashes. Apparently she had done something or sent to do something with
1:07:49
a sorcerer who was known to solve everything and even kill the enemies of whom
1:07:55
she could pay for it. Since she thought my mother was to blame that
1:08:00
none of the brothers wanted to sell their part of the house, she decided
1:08:04
she was going to get back at her. Whatever it was, after this
1:08:09
event, my parents weren' t the same. My mother began to be
1:08:13
a believer, just as my father was, and it became the custom of
1:08:16
always living protected from God as I could not stay, as if nothing had
1:08:21
happened. I started asking myself a lot of things about this kind of paranormal
1:08:28
situation and now I go to some groups or I look for answers in people
1:08:32
who have told me that they live within this world. One of them even
1:08:35
told me that what had persecuted me was not a spirit, but a deity
1:08:40
of those who, fed on the remains of my family, had become so
1:08:44
powerful that my story could end in tragedy. I just wonder what my mother
1:08:49
did to remove that curse, because as much as I have asked her,
1:08:55
she does not clarify anything to me and it seems that it will be a
1:08:59
secret that will be taken to the grave. I' m an engineer in
1:09:06
construction. I have been practicing this profession for about ten years and some strange
1:09:13
things have happened while I work in one place, as I move from one
1:09:15
side of the country to the other, following the construction plans for the company
1:09:20
in which I work. It is always well known in the work that stories
1:09:25
about ghosts or paranormal situations appear in places where it is built or remodeled.
1:09:31
Not that I don' t believe in those things. There are just some
1:09:36
situations that I can' t give an explanation to and I' ve decided
1:09:41
to let things go on. Of course I' m always looking for the
1:09:45
truth. I do some research or check the place to know that something is
1:09:48
not happening, that living people are doing to hinder a project or things like
1:09:54
that. And although I have seen all kinds of problems in the works,
1:09:59
from frau de lass to Espectros, nothing has ever caused me as much fear
1:10:02
as what happened to me in a city in the south of the country,
1:10:06
a place of few inhabitants compared to Mexico City, which is where I lived
1:10:12
and grew up until shortly before graduating from the University. That was the second
1:10:15
job I was going to do and the first job I had been sent to.
1:10:19
Externated to my home state. I didn' t put buts, even
1:10:24
though the pay wasn' t that good. I was looking to experience it
1:10:28
as soon as possible so I could find a good job. My passion had
1:10:32
always been construction, because several family members practiced masonry as a profession and fortunately,
1:10:39
I had been able to obtain scholarships that allowed me to study the career
1:10:44
in civil engineering. I went to work there in November, at two thousand
1:10:47
eleven, and it had been a dry season for most of the country.
1:10:53
There were a lot of water supply problems. The municipality I went to had
1:10:58
a more or less large town that lived on basics because it was difficult to
1:11:02
access a good infrastructure via water supply or electricity. In addition, I have
1:11:09
to accept that it was even difficult to access the health of many of the
1:11:14
people living in such poverty. I was sorry to see them in their little
1:11:18
jackals made of what they might find. I arrived there for a project of
1:11:24
several phases for the remodeling of certain facilities plus the annex of others for the
1:11:30
maintenance of a dam. From the moment we arrived I saw how there were
1:11:34
blankets taken off in some parts of the village that were looking for us to
1:11:40
stop building. Upon arrival we were not welcome. Basically, we couldn'
1:11:45
t even approach the town comfortably, because people were beginning to question us about
1:11:50
what we were going to do and whether we were aware of what we were
1:11:55
doing. The architect Mora gave me some details of what it would be like
1:12:00
to deal with all that. As an assistant to the play. The civil
1:12:03
engineer in charge would be roses a gentleman who had personally interviewed me to give
1:12:09
me the position and the one who had taken me to the work of restaurants
1:12:13
inside the city just to prove my knowledge. Mora had first come to review
1:12:18
some things, so he was more informed about the situation with the locals.
1:12:25
They disagreed, even though their municipal president was doing everything possible to make things
1:12:29
easier for us. The usual. Mora said. Locals do not want things
1:12:35
done to their lands are used to living in the last century and are afraid
1:12:41
of what may happen now that the project is expanding, after many years of
1:12:44
being putting obstacles on it. At that time, they had already run out
1:12:49
of the water needed for several crops, so they would accept the completion of
1:12:56
the dam project and the infrastructure that the authorities had contemplated so that the whole
1:13:00
town would have a more modern life. At first I was on the side
1:13:05
of the blackberry. It was evident that people were ignorant and did not see
1:13:10
things of progress in a pleasant way, as many of them belonged to some
1:13:15
indigenous groups who were famous in the area for protecting their green spaces. As
1:13:20
time goes on, I have another idea about these things, but especially about
1:13:26
those people who are linked to the earth in a way I have never seen
1:13:30
in other people. Although I had the possibility to travel well after the first
1:13:35
month of work, everything seemed to settle in so that we could work the
1:13:41
weather and even the inhabitants retreated. Facilities were also well protected to prevent someone
1:13:48
else from entering to try to start a peaceful protest by mooring something or opposing
1:13:55
the movement of machinery. As it had been years ago, construction began to
1:14:01
lose its starter power. When the workers began to complain, they said that
1:14:06
security had not prevented people from getting into the area and they heard how they
1:14:12
were hidden between the materials or the trees. They said that this was very
1:14:18
dangerous and they were not going to risk going to jail for a Christian who
1:14:21
suffered an accident by mistake that translated into the actions they took sometimes, it
1:14:28
was not stopping anyone who did something dangerous like throwing himself into the low-
1:14:32
lying areas under construction. After this problem, the work stopped. As the
1:14:38
surveillance personnel came to check the pink area, they were getting fed up with
1:14:44
having to keep an eye on the locals, so it was decided that the
1:14:48
work would continue a few weeks with double shifts. The delivery date could not
1:14:53
be extended because that would cost him a good money that he was not willing
1:14:58
to sacrifice for a lot of ignorant people. I didn' t think so,
1:15:02
but it was what I always repeated to myself when I apologized for speaking
1:15:08
in pure words, bad words or blaspheming because of the courage that was passing
1:15:13
from the obstacles that put those details to him to do his job. He
1:15:17
always apologized to me about his language, because he knew I couldn' t
1:15:21
talk like that. My deceased mother had instilled that in me since I was
1:15:28
a child and since she passed away, I soon retained a good language to
1:15:30
honor her. From there, in more roses, he treated me as a
1:15:34
tireless tool. The double days meant that I had almost nothing to sleep because
1:15:40
of supervision. He was going to rest at the workstation. It also disappeared,
1:15:46
which even lasted days without returning from the village on other matters. Or
1:15:51
so he said. It was so that I stayed at night checking that everything
1:15:57
was going to take place a to a to or Smente, the climate favored
1:16:00
me in the construction, because there was no rain and with that the landslides
1:16:04
or jams were reduced to zero. Under the normality of stopping jobs several times
1:16:10
so that staff would check the spaces between machines or materials because someone saw a
1:16:15
place run through the darkness. Work was always over. The third month of
1:16:23
that madness. With the intense reviews, I started going through what I thought
1:16:28
were periods of extreme tiredness, but one night I discovered that next to where
1:16:32
I took small dreams to endure the work, there always appeared small feet sunk
1:16:39
between the earth. I started looking for a way to explain that, but
1:16:44
as much as I asked or checked the shoes of some workers, I never
1:16:48
knew it was. My conclusion was that they were child footprints, but not
1:16:53
a joke. At two o’ clock in the morning, a child was
1:16:56
going to stand alone next to my chair and in that spot my neck began
1:17:01
to hurt hellishly and as much as I took medication, I could not help
1:17:05
feeling that heaviness. The small feet had been transformed into a walkway that went
1:17:12
straight to some trees where a wooded space began. Tired of that joke,
1:17:17
I grabbed the flashlight, adjusted my radio well and checked that everything was in
1:17:23
order to check the surroundings, to see what I could find when I entered
1:17:29
the forest. A feeling of restlessness dominated me was the anxiety of running out
1:17:32
of there. It wasn' t the deep darkness. What provoked me was
1:17:38
that I could see some lights flashing around and, evidently, I thought they
1:17:43
were animals like fireflies. I kept looking for clues on the ground, but
1:17:48
as much as I did a few laps in a few meters, maybe two
1:17:54
to three meters, I didn' t find any more prints. When I
1:17:57
turned to the exit, I heard voices and right behind my back, an
1:18:00
inexplicable coldness of a strange air. It brought me whispers that let me know
1:18:05
almost nothing about a secret conversation between children. I understood nothing more than something
1:18:11
similar to not coming or just a no ran leaving behind the flashlight that fell
1:18:16
out of terror. I went straight into the lights of the work and got
1:18:21
soaked in an inexplicable sweat because I didn' t run more than a few
1:18:26
meters, not to mention that what I felt was a very intense cold,
1:18:30
not an intense heat that could leave me in that state. When I arrived
1:18:33
at the work, two workers saw me coming and came to know what was
1:18:40
happening when I came to my face. I don' t know what look
1:18:44
I might have had, but they invited me to sit down and offered me
1:18:47
a beer that they kept somewhere in fear of being judged. I was trying
1:18:53
to calm down from the scare I had had, but one of the workers,
1:18:58
named Ignacio, told me that I had been frightened by the children and
1:19:03
they laughed. Then they started telling me what was going on at work hours.
1:19:10
It was known by the workers who were going to face the children'
1:19:14
s path, a story that was told among their acquaintances or relatives themselves,
1:19:18
as many of them belonged to the nearby village or some nearby relative localities,
1:19:25
so even the natives knew the stories as the pay was good. They had
1:19:30
decided to ignore legends or tales to work with, although many of them believed
1:19:35
in rituals or protective amulets so that they could take the children away or calm
1:19:40
them and thus let them work. They worked in the safe places because apparently
1:19:45
there was a place that, even if they did what they did, did
1:19:50
not allow the paranormal things or the beliefs of certain diabolical creatures to work in
1:19:56
it. That was the old building to be remodeled is that I was standing
1:20:00
past those trees where I went. That wasted space had belonged to the old
1:20:05
dam work and was now to be used as a surveillance post for the area.
1:20:12
It was only a twenty- square- meter building, but apparently no
1:20:16
one had spent more than five minutes searching its interior full of utensils, as
1:20:21
strange events began. At that time I didn' t believe anything, although
1:20:29
it was evident that something abnormal was happening, but, since I couldn'
1:20:32
t waste any more time, I got to work and let the gentlemen continue
1:20:36
with their thing at some point in the morning was going to arrive pink,
1:20:41
I was going to wonder why I wasn' t advanced according to the plan.
1:20:45
That day I slept badly. I felt extremely tired that I even had
1:20:48
trouble falling asleep. For the same reason, despite feeling the body as ground,
1:20:54
he could not stop thinking and thinking about what he had witnessed during the
1:20:58
ripening. In the end I fell asleep, but it was little. I
1:21:03
kept working without stopping helped just from coffee. Unfortunately, after that night there
1:21:11
began to be a problem after a problem that prevented the continuation of the work.
1:21:16
First he had been an injured worker. Then the engine failures of some
1:21:20
machines followed. Plans had also been lost for a few hours. It was
1:21:27
incredible how many small details pass here or there, leaving the work as expected
1:21:32
to be stopped. Rosa got desperate when she reached that point of stress.
1:21:38
He became a headache and, as his assistant, it was I who had
1:21:42
to be supporting his outbursts after all the disaster Rosas did not even admit by
1:21:48
condescension what the workers mentioned to him. They swore that the appearance of children
1:21:55
was more and more frequent. Moreover, they blamed them for the things that
1:22:00
were happening in the work, for they claimed that they did not want the
1:22:03
work to continue. It was so that some workers began to resign. Others
1:22:09
simply did not return the day after some paranormal event happened to them at the
1:22:15
point where we were missing ten of the staff. I decided to talk to
1:22:19
Pancho, the man who talked to me after seeing those presences in the forest.
1:22:25
Fortunately, he hadn' t thrown in the towel. I could ask
1:22:29
him if he knew a way to rid us of the spectra that attacked the
1:22:33
construction. Pancho told me I had to bring a priest or. To Mr
1:22:39
Curandero of the neighboring people I asked who I would entrust the task to was
1:22:44
to him and Unexpectedly, he told me to call Father Joseph of the parish.
1:22:48
That day he offered to take him the next day, for he could
1:22:51
not afford to lose his job now that his wife was pregnant. That is
1:22:57
why he had endured all the accidents and frights he had taken while doing his
1:23:02
masonry work. It' s amazing. What I' m going to say
1:23:08
next is just waiting for a reasonable space of doubt for those who know my
1:23:13
story, but neither do I believe it. Father Joseph came to bless the
1:23:16
work and as he arrived he left. He told us to stop believing in
1:23:20
the superstitions of the indigenous people living in the nearby hills. After scolding us,
1:23:28
he dropped his water. Blessed one prayed a little and then left as
1:23:30
if nothing remained like at first. Even Pancho was unbelieving at the lack of
1:23:36
support from the priest who was always on everyone’ s watch, and all
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the accidents continued despite the blessing he had promised me that would calm the souls
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of that place. I remained unbelieving, so I asked Rosas for a few
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hours in the morning to start checking the area. Along with surveillance, with
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a to, such fifty men we gave ourselves the task of combing the area.
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We looked all around, looking for clues to those tracks that we could
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see clearly. We searched the trees, looking for platforms or shelters where they
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could hide. We also checked between the stones and the workers themselves measured their
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boots with the footprints we found near the machines. Only those who were often
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heated, clogged or simply not lit. It was useless. We found nothing
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but more and more things that didn' t fit. The footprints were,
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indeed, smaller than the average footprints of the work team. The mechanic confirmed
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what we all thought softly, and that was that the machines went out on
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their own from within and didn' t know how security guards couldn' t
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find a way in which someone could be in the dark in so much grass.
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We were at the same point of sight as at first, not knowing
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what was going on and with time on top that night there was no exception,
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there were footsteps. I felt like they were looking at me while I
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was working. The difference is that a worker disappeared at about 2: 00
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in the morning. Unfortunately, it was nothing but pancho, and that made
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me feel even more restless. Besides being responsible. If supernatural things existed,
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then they had something against Pancho for having led the priest. They separated the
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jobs and we had to wait for the guards to search for the missing,
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because only they had the equipment for the search. Unfortunately, the morning came
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and they didn' t find him. That' s it. It became
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a black nightmare and roses were all day arguing with local authorities, who had
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stopped everything until they found the worker. I was worried about the man I
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had trusted. I could even say that honey. I talked to his colleagues
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and they were all waiting for them to resume the business to ask for their
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money. They wanted to leave, they were not going to risk it,
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to disappear also because of that which stalked us from the forest entered in matter
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of frights. I let things take their course without thinking about whether that existed
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or not, unless we were all drugged in the play to hallucinate with the
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children. It was impossible to have such consistency among all the ghostly stories of
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the forest. That' s why, without thinking twice, I left with
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the couple of personal eagle brothers in the play, who were close to pancho
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and who were looking to find him soon before something worse happened, because they
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thought the children had taken them away. We went with the healer from the
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other town. That was two hours away from the point where we met and
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it was an experience to meet that old man or an aura of mystery in
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that house on the outskirts of the Community. On the walls were hung plants
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to dry, had infinite jars with names of preparations. In the center he
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had a table where he treated those who came looking for his remedies. We
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told him about the problem and he looked at us with his eyes clouded by
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a small grey cloth that seemed to possess us. He was so old that
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his eyes looked like this and his wrinkles filled with strangeness. His expressions told
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us that he could do nothing against the spirits of the dead and less if
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they were making noise in the woods because of the hatred they felt because of
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his death. He told us that the work was cursed because of bad counsel
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given to those who began the work. Years ago it was well known to
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him, although he did not tell us, as he knew, that this
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work was stained with innocent blood, because they had ritualized the foundations. He
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told us that at the time that the spirits of the forest began to stop
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the work, the former leader had been proposed by some leaders to perform an
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old ritual where the blood was the foundation for them to be protected from all
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that included the spirits of the forest. The blood had been from some children,
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as the belief was that when the building was in danger, the children
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would cry warning of the problem. He also warned us that Pancho would die
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in a few days from thirst and hunger. That was the quota the children
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asked for sacrifices to complete that work. I found it aberrant what the old
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man said, who would hurt children just to follow an old superstition. But
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the brothers did not reply. They said they understood and pulled me out of
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the house without being able to ask anything. They said they already knew how
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they were going to save Pancho. I was told that if party dissipated,
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no one could know about the play what we would do and it was even
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forbidden to mention it. Honestly, curiosity led me to agree to silence to
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be part of it. I thought if they tried to commit a crime,
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it was better to stop them. Being there myself was nothing I thought of.
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We arrived near the cellar that was in the middle of the trees,
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we noticed that there was no one. Indeed, the works were stopped,
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but they did not seem to be looking for anyone. I had already turned
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off the phone, as they had said, that I could rest all day
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on what was arranged. That' s because I was just the shawl I
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took advantage of to disappear. The brothers carried a couple of rabbits and a
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small dog. You don' t have to be a genius to know what
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they were going to do, but I wanted to understand what was going to
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happen and how it was going to do. Appearing on pancho next to the
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house. They arranged the tied animals. They asked me to hold the rabbits
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and they began to pray in a low voice. They asked the spirits to
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calm down and yes. They were looking for blood for the play. That
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was the blood they were offered when they pulled out a knife to take the
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animals' lives. We began to hear how the wind shook the branches of
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the trees, those whispers of nature became whispers of children. I looked everywhere.
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The night had already fallen and as that time I saw nothing, the
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light we held to see the animals was the only thing that allowed us to
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see. Something between the darkness distinguished supernaturally silhouettes that made circles for us.
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I think the brothers were looking at us They started to sting the animals in
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the neck to throw their blood to the ground and an uncomfortable feeling invaded me.
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I felt nauseous and went away to vomit in the dark. When I
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finished in front of me was a small, completely black face. With large
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eyes like brilliant marbles without humanity. The boy looked at me crouching like an
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animal screamed and the brothers called me telling me to shut up. Then one
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of them shouted and began a chase between the sounds of the creaking on the
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ground, distinguishing large footprints from the eagles, but also small ones and among
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them lighted briefly by the lanterns in the hands of my companions. In flight
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I reached to see a small boy deformed from the spine crouched like a rabbit,
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looking at me with his angelic face covered in mud. That' s
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what was chasing us, and it wasn' t just one. There were
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several screams again and I ran That chased me closely because I listened to the
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whispers behind me with horror. At one point I got lost zigzagging between the
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trunks, the bushes and the piles of leaves. For the first time in
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my life, I wanted to pray what my parents had taught me, but
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I remembered nothing. The beast with a child' s face chased me,
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I heard my name, but I didn' t turn around or stop until
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a long time later I don' t know how much I ran, but
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I got to a road in time after dawn. There I waited for someone
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to come by to take me to the nearest village, because the cell phone
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and several things that I carried with me had been lost during the persecution.
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In the end, Pancho was found, had fallen into a sort of natural
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pit, had broken his leg and was fainted all that time from the contusion
1:32:40
and found fever from the infection he had acquired. Fortunately, he did not
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die, but the conditions under which he had remained were incredible. The brothers
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did not return to work at the site or claim their outstanding payment. I
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know they didn' t get lost because no one reported her missing. Maybe
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they just ran to save themselves, deciding not to come back and face the
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children. The work was done, but in bad condition. Today he even
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faces legal problems. After that, I only did two more jobs for Mr
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Rosas, and after ten months of work, I went to another company.
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Fortunately, I haven' t had contact with that again and I try to
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be very respectful of the places I get to work. I hope I never
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see that again. Stories written and adapted by Patricia González