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Acepté Un Espíritu En Casa Y Ese Fue Mi Peor Error ( Recopilación De Sucesos Paranormales #1 ) · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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Without further ado. We' ve started since I remember. I always
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felt that I had a special connection with my grandfather, because despite living in
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different cities, every time we saw each other it was a unique experience.
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I did not consider my role model and felt that I was the only one
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in the family who really understood me. His youth full of experiences and adventures
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inspired me and as a child he had shown a great interest in exploring the
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world and trying out new experiences. So, when I finished high school,
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I decided to take charge of my life and not go to college, despite
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my parents' wishes. At the age of eighteen I began to travel and
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express myself taking sporadic jobs to finance my adventures and although this distanced my relationship
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with my parents, I felt that I was following the right path. When
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the pandemic began to become present on the news, at first, like many
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others, I didn' t think it was anything that really affected us and
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I continued to travel without worrying about the security measures until the day everything was
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closed and we had to go into quarantine. I found myself unprotected in an
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unknown city and not knowing what to do. I realized that my grandfather lived
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about three hours away, so I decided to go with him until he passed
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the quarantine that was supposed to. It would only be for a couple of
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weeks. I called his landline, as my grandfather had never adapted much to
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technology. At first I was surprised that I did not respond, as we
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used to speak regularly, but this time the call was diverted to voicemail,
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hung up and bowl I tried again several times without success, until finally answering
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in the fifth call. I greeted him with joy and asked him why he
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had not answered the first few times, but his explanation was vague, mentioning
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that he was reviewing some things. I decided not to give it much importance
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and asked him if I could stay with him during the quarantine, as I
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could no longer move because of the situation. I thought my grandfather would have
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no problem staying, as he had not done it on other occasions and always
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seemed happy to have his grandchildren around, but this time I noticed something different
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in his answer. He was quiet for a moment before he said it would
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be nice if I stayed with him, said goodbye and headed to his apartment
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on a bus. He lived in a complex of apartments, mainly inhabited by
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seniors and, although it was not a strict rule for some reason, all
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tenants were eager. I knew most of them and they all knew me when
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I arrived I knocked on their apartment doorbell for a while, but no one
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answered. I found it strange, since my grandfather knew he was coming.
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I was about to call again when I saw Mrs Victoria entering the building,
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she greeted me and asked me what she was doing there. I explained to
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him that I had stayed close when they closed everything because of the pandemic and
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that I would stay in my grandfather' s apartment for a few days.
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She looked at me strangely and told me that she believed my grandfather was not
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in the hospital for a few days and that everyone in the building thought he
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had already contracted the virus. When Doña Victoria told me that, I was
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very surprised and at the same time felt a little guilty, as I had
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been so involved in my own affairs that I had not even heard that my
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grandfather had been sick enough to end up in the hospital. So I just
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told him I wasn' t aware, but I probably didn' t have
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that, since I just talked to him. A couple of hours earlier,
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she sighed relieved and commented that that was very good, as everyone in the
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building was pretty scared. He opened the door to the building and we both
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started going up and once in front of my grandfather' s door, I
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touched a couple of times to open it and it did. When I saw
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him, I noticed that he was a little paler and more obnoxious than normal,
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but the happiness of seeing him made him less important. I hugged him
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and greeted him by asking him how he had been and so on. My
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grandfather seemed very happy to see me, too. However, I quickly noticed
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something strange. His cat' s dish and trough were completely empty. My
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grandfather used to be very responsible to his pets always making sure they had food
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and water. I found it strange to see the voids and while you were
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serving food and filling the cat' s water dish, the animal seemed hungry
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and thirsty. I mentioned it to my grandfather, but he just told me
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I should have forgotten. I didn' t care, thinking it might be
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age- specific. However, as I watched the house, I noticed that
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although it was not dirty, there was dust everywhere as if it had not
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been cleaned in several days, and there were also a couple of frets in
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the kitchen jar, which was strange because my grandfather had always been very clean
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and organized. Although I wanted to mention all this, I decided not to
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burden him that day and wait for the right time to talk about it.
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During my stay, we spent the rest of that afternoon telling each other stories,
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laughing and playing some board games, because, as I said before,
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I really enjoyed every moment I spent with my grandfather and felt it was reciprocal.
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And when night came we were sitting down eating some pizza. I wanted
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to cook something, but when I opened the refrigerator I realized that everything was
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expired and there was even food that was no longer served. I asked him
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about it and he just wandered around a little by telling me that sometimes he
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forgot that the food was there. I assumed again that it was a matter
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of age, although this whole situation was already worrying me too much, as
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it hurt me to think my grandfather was getting older. That way, I
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decided to buy him an alexa to help him remember his things. I thought
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it was fair and necessary. So I could remind him of everything and never
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forget anything. I ordered it on an app and set myself up to sleep.
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The next morning I went to my grandfather' s room to pick him
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up, but I realized he wasn' t there. This did not surprise
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me at all, as my grandfather, like many elders, was someone who
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got up very early. I walked into the living room to see if it
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was there, but I didn' t find it either and looked into the
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kitchen and the bathroom, but it wasn' t there either. This was
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really weird, as I just got out of the bathroom and knew my grandfather
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wasn' t there. Moreover, because of the different health measures that were
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being taken at the time, older people of such advanced age should not go
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out into the street, although to tell the truth, by that time I
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was still not entirely convinced about the severity of the pandemic and still felt that
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it was something fleeting and not as harmful as they said. I thought the
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wisest thing would be if I didn' t come out, as I was
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not only part of the population at risk, but had been ill recently,
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according to what Mrs Victoria had told me, I was about to leave the
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apartment to go look for him. When I heard my grandfather' s voice
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wondering what he was doing, I turned somewhat surprised, as I had not
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only not heard it, but had not seen it. I asked him where
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he was and he said he was in his room. I told him I
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hadn' t seen him and he assured me that if he had been there,
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and although this seemed strange to me, having no other explanation, I
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thought that maybe for some reason, I hadn' t seen well, I
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wasn' t covered up to my head and that I had confused him with
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the sheets. I didn' t say anything else about it. I just
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told her I' d throw everything that was no longer in the fridge and
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maybe go to the store for some breakfast. That' s how I did
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it. Upon returning I realized that my grandfather was sitting on the biggest couch
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in the room staring at the TV off, I asked him what he was
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doing, but he didn' t answer me. For a long minute until
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he finally said nothing. Son was only remembering my life and although I was
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used to my grandfather remembering the past and measured to tell very good stories about
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his youth, on this occasion it just became very sad. There was only
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something in his voice that made me feel too melancholy. I went to the
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kitchen and started making breakfast. I did enough for both of them, but
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as soon as I called my grandfather to sit at the table, he told
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me he wasn' t hungry. I replied that I had to eat something,
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but he told me that I had eaten long before I woke up and
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that I was not hungry at all. Although this was a little weird,
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the truth is that many times my grandfather had breakfast very early, so I
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didn' t give it that much importance either. We talked a lot and
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I remember that we laughed a lot and without saying anything, I started doing
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some cleaning at his house, as I knew my grandfather liked that things were
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neat and clean. He thought it was because of his advanced age and that
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he could no longer do as much toilet as he would like, so he
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was doing it for him. I thought my grandfather really appreciated it, because
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he didn' t tell me to stop at lunch. My grandfather also refused
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to eat any food. This seemed strange to me, since having been with
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him all day, I was well aware that I had not eaten anything,
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and that made me think that, in fact, since I had arrived there
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I had not seen him eat anything, because when we ordered pizza, I
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was eating and my grandfather remained with the same slice on his plate all the
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time. It was a little worrying to me that my grandfather wasn' t
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eating, so I thought if I at least told him to stay with me
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while I was eating, I' d get him to try some food.
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I turned on the TV and next to him, we were watching an old
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movie he liked so much. At some point, however, the commercials went
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through what was repeated over and over again in the news about the pandemic and
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all the security measures to be followed. The truth was a little tired of
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all that, because, as I said before, all that seemed a little
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exaggerated to me and that the virus was not as deadly as they wanted to
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make it look. So I told my grandfather, but he remained very serious
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as he watched that informational cut. When I finished telling my grandfather what I
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thought about the pandemic, he looked at me and told me not to say
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that and to take care of me because the virus was quite real and very
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dangerous. I only dismissed his claims, thinking that he had only been suggested
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with everything he had seen on television and probably in the hospital he had been
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in before my arrival. During lunch and so little at dinner, I managed
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to get my grandfather to eat something. He was just telling me that I
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wasn' t hungry and that I' d eat something later, even though
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I was worried. I didn' t feel like I had any authority to
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force my grandfather to eat. I always saw him as a perfectly adult person
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able to control his own life, so at that time I didn' t
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have the courage to insist any more and no choice. I went to sleep.
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The next morning I saw that my grandfather' s cabinet lacked several medicines
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he was taking. It wasn' t because of an illness as such,
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it was just vitamins and some pills that older people were supposed to take.
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I questioned my grandfather and he told me it didn' t matter, but
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I told him I' d go to the pharmacy quickly to resurrect all those
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medications again. And even though my grandfather told me that I was fine and
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that I really didn' t need them, I didn' t listen and
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left the apartment to go buy the drugs. Once I left the pharmacy,
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I was walking to take the IOC that would leave me back in front of
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the apartment complex where I lived. When I suddenly got a call and answered
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I realized that I was the mail delivery guy, who was asking about a
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package for me. I told him that while I wasn' t at home
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at the time, I could leave it to my grandfather and give him the
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apartment number. However, a couple of minutes later, he called me the
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same delivery man again, telling me that no one would answer him in that
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apartment. I replied that there must be someone there, since my grandfather didn
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' t go out, but he told me that he was in a hurry
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and that no one responded there, so without any choice, I told him
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to leave it at the lady' s apartment number that I found at the
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entrance, as I knew that she could receive it, although it was quite
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strange that my grandfather didn' t answer the intercom. I arrived a couple
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of minutes later and went through Mrs Victoria' s house package. I thanked
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him and went back to the apartment with my grandfather and when he arrived I
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asked him why he had not answered the delivery man. My grandfather replied that
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it was because I had not heard the ringing bell, but somehow I knew
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I was lying, since the first day I was there, the pizza delivery
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guy had touched the intercom and it had been perfectly heard I decided not to
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question it anymore and that was it. I showed him Alexa' s model
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and told him how it worked and how I could help him. But my
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grandfather told me that I shouldn' t have bothered, that he didn'
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t need any of that anymore. But I thought he was only telling me
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because my grandfather had always opposed technology. Even so, I decided to program
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different alarms on my own in the alexa, reminding her of the hours she
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should take her medications and schedule her to let her know when she should feed
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the cat and check the expiration dates of things in her refrigerator. I thought
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that even if my grandfather didn' t want to, it was something really
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necessary, given the conditions in which I had found him. At that time
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I saw that my grandfather was quieter than usual, but I didn' t
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want to have an argument with him about it, because I felt it was
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something I should do, even if this bothered him, so I decided to
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ignore his silence. At some point in the night I heard my grandfather was
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making a lot of noise in his room. So I went to see him
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and I saw him pulling an old box under his bed. I asked him
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what he was doing and he told me to sit down. So I did
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and he told me that box wanted to give it to me. Thinking it
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would really do me good, I asked him what he meant and almost at
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the same time removed the locks from the box making it open. I was
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very surprised to see that inside I had done nothing more and nothing less than
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eight hundred years. At that time I told him that he could not accept
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them and that he would keep them for him in case he needed them later.
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But he told me he wasn' t gonna need any of that anymore
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and he wanted to give it to me. We were trying to return the
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centennials to each other for a few minutes until I finally saw that my grandfather
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was starting to get upset and reluctantly. I accepted them to leave the discussion
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alone, although I thought that as soon as the quarantine ended, I would
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leave them in the guest room and promise to come back for them later and
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stay at my grandfather' s house forever. But as soon as I accepted
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them and turned around to go to my room to sleep my grandfather told me,
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son, something else. You could take Felix, which was his cat
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' s name. I was surprised and asked him where he wanted me to
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take Felix, but my grandfather no longer answered me, so I just left
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the room and went to mine to sleep. When I was already falling asleep,
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my phone started ringing it, I groped and when I saw the caller
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ID, I realized that it was my mother and I really didn' t
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want to talk to her, as we hadn' t talked to each other
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for about a year, if we always ended up angry when we did,
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but something inside of me. I knew I had to answer her, so
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I did I greeted her and so did she, but in her voice she
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seemed to have been crying. I asked her if everything was okay with what
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she told me my grandfather had passed away. Almost immediately. I told her
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not to joke about it, but she told me that she was not joking,
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that she had felt bad and had gone to the hospital and once there
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she had contracted the disease. Almost immediately I told him that could not be
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since I was in his apartment with him. My strange mother told me that
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could not be possible, since my grandfather had been in the hospital for more
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than two weeks and that in those last three days that I claimed to have
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been in the department with him, he had gone into a coma and had
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finally died. A couple of minutes ago. Disturbed by everything my mother was
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telling me and at the same time, making all the connections, she ran
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to my grandfather' s room just to find the empty one. I looked
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everywhere, but I never saw him again. A few days later he was
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attending his funeral. Actually, that experience I don' t remember as something
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particularly horrible, but I think of it as something that only shows the strong
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connection that my grandfather had with me, that he didn' t leave me
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lying in the middle of nowhere when I needed it most and that somehow I
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could spend a few more days with him and say goodbye. I' ll
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always be grateful for that. This happened to me at the time of the
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pandemic. At that time, like a lot of kids my age, we
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went into high school without even stepping on physical school. Everything was online,
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although to be honest this did not bother me, since I had never been
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very good at socializing. At least in my opinion, I didn' t
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feel that the pandemic was affecting me as much as other people. What I
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do remember is that my mother was affected. He had far too extreme sanitary
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measures. These exceeded, in fact, beyond what was recommended. I was
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absolutely forbidden to leave. She was the only one who came out because of
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the need we had for her to work, but when she got home she
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showered very well and put all her clothes in bags to almost immediately wash it
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separately in the washing machine. I actually felt like I was exaggerating a little
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bit, but with all the panic that there was at the time, you
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could come to believe that maybe I wasn' t that crazy. If I
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found it difficult to engage in conversation with people in front of them on the
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Internet. It was the opposite for me, since I really felt that I
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could manage well, although I had not managed to make many friends in my
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classroom, because most wanted to make video calls and that was not something I
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liked. At that time I had a lot of free time, since my
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mom wouldn' t even let me go out in the yard for fear of
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getting infected. So I was almost locked up at 24 hours a day and
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I remember once I was so bored that I started going into different forums on
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the Internet looking for people to share my interests. At the time, I
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was concerned with everything related to the paranormal and I didn' t know many
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people he liked. However, in internet and space for everyone. I remember
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well that while I was jumping from one forum to another, I ran into
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one where there was a link to join a group that looked pretty cool,
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because they said that there were several horror movies that were censored in different parts
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of the world and also said that several people came to share their paranormal experiences
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and that sort of thing. So intrigued, he diplicates the link so I
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can join. Honestly, I really liked being in that group, as they
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all made me feel quite welcome and had very good stories to share. And
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likewise, I remember sharing some, although to be honest, I had never
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lived anything so paranormal. Beyond seeing some object move or some shadow through the
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corner of my eye. I always had that inner desire to experience some paranormal
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event, but so far I had not had any real luck. Or that
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as the days passed, basically after taking my classes online, the rest of
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the afternoon I spent it in that group. I soon realized who were the
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ones who as I came in most frequently and remember that one morning, while
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we were talking about different things, I, although I didn' t have
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a real story to tell, it occurred to me to send a message with
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a written horror story, as I liked to write those kinds of stories and
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I felt too happy when everyone told me that the story was pretty good and
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besides, one of them made me a couple of constructive reviews. After thanking
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them, I went to bed. However, before I could fall asleep,
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my phone survived with a notification of the application I used. It was an
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intrigued private message. I opened it and realized that it was from the same
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user who had been giving me some constructive criticism about my work. He told
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me that he really liked what I had written and that if I had a
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little more of those flattered stories because someone was asking me for more of my
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stories, I sent him a few and that was all the conversation we had
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during that morning. The next day he told me that he had already read
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all the stories I had sent him and that they were pretty good. In
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addition, she gave me some notes that I should take into account if I
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wanted to make the writing and writing issue look a little better and since then
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she and I started talking through private messages. I really liked him very much
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We found out that we only lived about forty minutes away. Besides, we
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had too similar tastes. We both even started to say that as soon as
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the whole pandemic thing ended, then we' d meet to do something.
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I remember we even made video calls and talked about a lot of issues beyond
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terror. It was a friendship I thought was genuine. I even remember when
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I was almost about to do her birthday, I asked her if she would
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give me her address to send her a gift. At first, I noticed
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he hesitated, but I told him he was fine and if he didn'
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t want to give me his address, I could send him to his nearest
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post office and I could pick him up there. But after thinking about it
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for a moment, she told me she was fine and she would give me
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her address. So he did, and I bought him a couple of things
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I thought he' d like. I remember perfectly well that she was very
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happy with the things I gave her. He told me that he had a
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lot of time, that no one outside his family gave him a gift and
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that he really thanked me for all that. I told him there was no
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problem, although I know giving your address to people on the Internet isn'
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t exactly the safest thing in the world. She asked me for mine and
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I gave it to her from then on we didn' t give us some
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physical letters. It wasn' t the big deal, it was just something
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fun we did to each other. It seemed like a way to pass the
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quarantine and I remember going out of the house into the mail before my mother
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came back from work, and she never noticed. Unlike me, she claimed
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that she had lived many paranormal experiences in her life. He also told me
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that the women in his family had this kind of sixth sense that allowed them
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to see ghosts and be more predisposed to having all those paranormal events happen to
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them. At that time I told her that I really envied her and that
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I would very much like something like that to happen to me. At first,
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she used to take it with laughter, but as I told her the
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more. She realized that I was serious and wanted to see a ghost in
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my life, to which she told me that her grandmother, when she was
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alive, used to say that she had trapped a ghost in a bottle and
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that it was in a cellar that was in her house. I was intrigued
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I asked him why he never told me that story. She replied that the
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subject had never been given and that, in addition, not many in her
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family believed her, as at the end of her life her grandmother used to
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be a bit delirious. However, no one had dared to open that bottle
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and was only accumulating dust in that cellar. I really regret doing this nonsense,
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but I asked her if she could send it to me so I could
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open it and check whether there was a ghost or not. At that moment
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I was just thinking about following my friend, so I kept telling her that
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I would dare to open it and if there was a ghost, then I
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would fulfill my dream of seeing one. And if there was no ghost,
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then we' d accept that her grandmother was just lying. Finally, she
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said yes she would send me the bottle. I think it' s been
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about five days when I didn' t get any letters or packages from her.
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And actually, by that time I wasn' t insisting on the bottle
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anymore, because I thought maybe it was some kind of family relic and wouldn
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' t send it to me, so I didn' t want to push
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it. However, after that time the package arrived. I was too excited
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and barely received it, I ran to my room and looked for scissors so
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I could open the box. I was about to open it, but I
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thought the fairest thing would be for me to make a video call with this
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girl so we could both see if there was a ghost or not. I
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tried to contact her. However, she sent me a message saying that she
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was on a test, so it would take a little while to do so,
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and even though I was desperate, I managed to endure until the hour
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when she was released by the time my friend was released. It was already
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seven o' clock at night and my mom used to come home around seven
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thirty, but I was too impatient, so I decided to take a chance.
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I remember very well that I lit the chamber so that she could see
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it and I opened the box with scissors. She told me to be very
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careful when I took the bottle out. When I did, I thought it
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was a joke and I didn' t get the real bottle. I was
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actually hoping to see something a little more mystical, like a completely black bottle
28:33
that seemed to have smoke inside. I was hoping that minimum was all black
28:37
and had a super- reinforced lid. But this bottle was only a bottle
28:42
of glass with a cork that seemed very easy to draw. Honestly, it
28:48
looked kind of disappointing. I looked at my friend waiting for her to make
28:52
fun of me or tell me that that wasn' t the bottle, but
28:56
from the look she had she confirmed to me that, in fact, that
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if it was the bottle ria. Trying to hide my discontent, I stood
29:03
in front of her and told her I would open it. At that moment,
29:07
she seemed to look very attentive and after making a countdown from three to
29:11
one I pulled out the cork that covered it with one shot, the classic
29:17
sound of the air was heard being released, but nothing else happened. Both
29:22
she and I stayed about a minute in total silence, waiting for anything paranormal
29:26
to happen. But everything was as quiet as before opening that bottle. So
29:33
feeling a little silly for seriously waiting for a ghost to come out of that
29:38
bottle, we couldn' t help but laugh and we started making jokes about
29:44
it, like it could grant us. I wish I had gone out or
29:48
that kind of thing. My mom arrived shortly afterwards, so I had to
29:52
say goodbye to her, as my mom disapproved of any relationship on the Internet
29:57
and certainly didn' t like me making video calls with someone I didn'
30:03
t know in person. I remember after spending some time with her, I
30:07
went back to my room and tried to contact my friend again, but my
30:11
computer was acting a little weird. She seemed to be doing a lot of
30:18
work and that was hard to believe, since my mom had bought it at
30:22
the beginning of the pandemic to help me with school. So I didn'
30:26
t have much time and it was weird that I was already failing. I
30:29
reproached myself thinking that maybe by opening up all the links they sent me unintentionally
30:33
I had downloaded some virus. I thought I might try to fix it before
30:41
Mom noticed, but as much as I tried to access virtually any page.
30:47
It was very tedious, so much that the screen was freezing, so eventually
30:52
I ended up giving up and just forced off the computer to go to sleep.
30:59
I remember that while I was putting my pajamas to sleep after, I
31:03
realized that that old bottle was on the desk of my room. That became
31:07
a little strange to me, as I had a clear memory that when I
31:11
opened it, what I had done was to leave it on my mattress and
31:17
while I was talking to my friend on video, I had fallen to the
31:21
floor. He remembered it very clearly because he had this memory of me looking
31:26
under the bed to verify that it had not been broken and he also had
31:30
the memory that he had seen that it was whole, so as far as
31:36
I knew, the bottle had remained under the bed. At that time,
31:40
however, he was in the bureau. At that point I considered the idea
31:45
that it might be some kind of paranormal event, but I quickly discarded that
31:52
idea thinking that maybe I had put it there in the hurry the moment my
31:55
mom came home, so I just left it there and lay down to sleep.
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At the time I was more worried about the fact that my computer was
32:05
failing than believing that some ghost was moving a bottle. I thought maybe I
32:10
could look for some video to prescribe it, without having to go into any
32:16
special page and thinking about different solutions to the problem I had. I fell
32:22
deeply asleep. However, at some point in the morning I woke up,
32:29
as I was feeling too cold and, as much as I was trying,
32:34
I couldn' t make it calm down, so I finally made the decision
32:37
to get up for another blanket. I got out of bed and started looking
32:40
for my flip flops, but I couldn' t find them. Like the
32:45
switch was all the way to the door. I decided to just do it
32:49
barefoot. I stood up and took the first step, but when I was
32:52
going to take the second, I felt clearly like a bony hand took me
32:57
by the ankle and pulled me down making me fall to the floor. I
33:01
don' t think I' d ever been able to get up so fast
33:06
in my entire life, but from one moment to another I was already pressing
33:10
the switch to get the light on. When it was on, there was
33:13
no one there. There didn' t seem to be anything I could have
33:17
stumbled upon either, so that too was ruled out. Almost immediately. I
33:23
turned straight to the bureau to look at that bottle, but this one was
33:28
no longer there. Instead of standing on the bureau, he was standing right
33:32
on the floor next to it, but it didn' t look like the
33:36
bottle had fallen, but it was standing as if someone had put it beside
33:40
the furniture. That was something I couldn' t find very logical. At
33:46
that time I felt too scared to enjoy it. It' s like when
33:52
a dream comes true, but you quickly realize it' s not what you
33:59
wanted that night. I didn' t want to sleep in my room,
34:02
so I opened the door and went to my mother' s room hoping to
34:07
sleep with her and, for my fortune, I was so tired then she
34:12
didn' t ask me many questions and let me sleep there I felt quite
34:15
protected, so I went back to sleep and between dreams I was feeling something
34:22
very cold between my feet and I was trying to push it away, but
34:24
I couldn' t. When I woke up, I realized I was still
34:29
feeling something cold on my feet, so I popped out and ran into that
34:34
bottle in my mother' s bed. From the impression I couldn' t
34:37
help but scream and start kicking to try to get the bottle out of bed,
34:43
which caused my mom to wake up and ask me what she had and
34:46
at that moment I couldn' t take it anymore and I told her that
34:52
bottle was cursed. At the time I didn' t dare tell you where
34:54
I got it. So my mother pulled out her own deductions and thought that
35:00
I had put that dirty bottle out of the street, which meant that there
35:04
was a high probability that she was infected with the virus. She immediately went
35:09
crazy accusing me of wanting to make her sick and risking that way to infect
35:15
me. He ordered me to go throw her in the yard at the time,
35:20
but I was very afraid of everything that had been going on angry.
35:23
She took it and threw it out the window. I was hoping to hear
35:28
it break, but it only sounded like it bounced off the cement and after
35:34
that he told me to go to sleep in my own room and that in
35:37
the morning he would tell me what my punishment would be for doing those things
35:42
in pandemic time and having no other remedy, I went back to my room
35:47
only that I was too afraid. Once in my bed I didn' t
35:52
dare close my eyes. He would light up the phone flashlight at the slightest
35:57
noise signal. I was sure that without keeping me awake anything bad could happen
36:01
to me and after a while, I started using the phone to distract myself,
36:07
but after almost an hour I started to notice that his screen was frozen
36:13
the same way my computer had done it hours ago. The cold in my
36:17
room seemed to get worse and no matter how many blankets I got. The
36:22
cold could not diminish, but she was more than willing to stay awake until
36:28
the next morning. Even if I had nothing to distract myself from, the
36:32
idea of sleeping caused me too much panic. I think it had been about
36:37
thirty minutes when I heard a very strange noise in the kitchen. It was
36:43
as if a pile of plate had fallen. At that moment I heard the
36:46
door of my mom' s room open and walk furiously into the kitchen.
36:51
I think she thought I was responsible for that noise, but a few seconds
36:54
later I could only hear my mom screaming quickly. I got up and went
37:01
to see what was going on in the kitchen was totally thrown out, the
37:07
refrigerator was open and all the food was scattered all over the floor, the
37:12
dishes were broken, just like the glasses and all the grills on the stove
37:16
were on. I asked my mom what had happened, and she replied that
37:21
she had no idea, but when she turned on the light, she saw
37:25
that there was a woman standing near the stove oven, very tall and very
37:30
thin. Honestly, I didn' t dare say anything to her, but
37:37
my mom was so upset that she told me to keep what I thought was
37:42
necessary, as we would spend the rest of the night at my grandmother'
37:45
s house and so we did. We practically ran away from our home.
37:49
During the morning, my mom took a person to clean the house. The
37:54
next day, she said that when they came in they realized that, like
37:59
the thing, everything was lying down and many of our things were broken.
38:04
Besides, the person who did the cleaning told him that thing didn' t
38:07
want to leave. My computer and all my stuff worked perfectly. When we
38:14
left that house, I tried to get in touch with my friend, but
38:19
I ran into her profile being erased and blocked from all sides. The truth.
38:23
That' s something that intrigues me even more than the fact of the
38:28
ghost. I don' t know if he took advantage of me pretending to
38:31
be my friend to give me the ghost or if he just does those things
38:35
for fun. I guess I' ll never get an answer to that after
38:39
that we moved out of the house and, fortunately, that thing didn'
38:44
t follow us, but a lot of people who' ve rented that house
38:47
leave very quickly from there. I feel responsible for that, but I really
38:52
don' t know what I could do to fix it. I don'
39:00
t know how to start telling this, but I think the reality I find
39:05
myself in today isn' t mine. I understand how crazy all this sounds.
39:08
In fact, I think if I wasn' t currently living it,
39:13
I wouldn' t believe it and believe me, I know exactly how crazy
39:19
all this sounds, but it' s something I' ve not only been
39:22
thinking about, but investigating, and I' ve seen that there are some
39:27
people who claim to be going through the same thing as me. Well,
39:28
it all started in the pandemic. I have memories of this one that didn
39:31
' t happen here. To begin with, at the time they closed everything
39:36
was in early February, probably the three or the five. I remember they
39:40
closed everything and people seriously complied with all the sanitary measures they put in.
39:45
There was nothing related to what happened here. The chaos and people fighting in
39:51
the supermarket over toilet paper or supplies, everyone, or at least in Mexico,
39:55
seemed to be aware that it was a deadly mun virus and that the
40:00
sooner we took the measures, the sooner we would get out of it.
40:06
At that time I was fourteen years old and my mom worked making drawings for
40:12
children' s books, so I had always worked from home, so that
40:15
wasn' t a big change for our dynamics. However, what if it
40:20
was a big change was the question of school and taking classes online. I
40:24
liked that quite a lot and, in fact, remember I even told my
40:30
mom that I could start online classes even if the pandemic was over. The
40:35
only bad thing about this whole situation, to my point of view, was
40:38
the boring thing, that it was everything was closed and, therefore, even
40:44
if spoken to your friends by video call or you were in contact, they
40:50
didn' t have much to tell you either, since nothing happened to them.
40:52
I don' t think it' s been about two or maybe three
40:57
months either. I don' t remember him well, because I didn'
41:01
t want to pay enough attention to him at the time. But what I
41:02
remember was that, thanks to the fact that the whole population had attended to
41:07
the corresponding sanitary measures. We had been told that in another month everything would
41:12
be reopened, obviously following sanitary measures, because although a vaccine was almost ready,
41:19
we still had to take care of ourselves. Back then I had become
41:24
too addicted to Tiktok. I literally spent hours sliding one video after another.
41:30
It was the only thing I did for practically the whole day. When I
41:35
heard that there was only one month left, I was happy, but I
41:39
also thought it was too long, since we had already been locked up for
41:45
more than two months, but there wasn' t much to do. And
41:47
one day, as I slid down on Tiktok, I came across this account
41:52
of a girl who taught how to shift for those who don' t know.
41:59
Shitting is prack changing reality. She claimed to have managed to do this
42:04
and to have gone to a reality and that she had met people and that
42:08
kind of thing the truth. When I saw that video, I thought it
42:12
was total nonsense. Don' t misunderstand me. I' ve always been
42:16
about respecting any kind of beliefs people may have. But when this girl said
42:22
she had managed to move her mind to some kind of alternative reality where the
42:28
universe of a movie was real and you could get to know everyone seriously,
42:31
it became pretty pathetic to me. However, almost as if it were some
42:37
kind of bad joke of fate, these videos began to come out more and
42:42
more and more different people claimed to have managed to shift, not only to
42:47
Harvey' s universe, but to different kinds of realities and basically, your
42:52
imagination was the limit. At first it seemed somewhat exaggerated, but very soon
42:58
the idea of ur started to like me. I' ve always blamed the
43:01
fact that I' d been locked up in my house for a long time
43:07
and assumed that if I did, I wouldn' t have to tell anyone,
43:12
since I thought it was humiliating. Still, I was very curious and
43:15
thought that at least it would be a good way to pass the time.
43:19
So one day I decided and started investigating about all this. At first I
43:24
didn' t even have a clear idea of where I wanted to go,
43:30
but I finally decided which one everyone chose, as it was the most common
43:34
one within all the people who did this, so the first thing they ask
43:37
you to do is to do a kind of script where you have to write,
43:43
how long you' re going to be there, how you are,
43:47
how the characters are going to be, the rules and different kinds of things.
43:50
It' s a very long process that I don' t think is
43:52
worth mentioning in detail here, but let' s just say it' s
43:57
rather tedious. I don' t think I slept in two days for doing
44:00
everything to the letter. The truth is, I' ve always been too
44:04
obsessive and when I have a job I can' t rest until I finish
44:09
it. After having written it with all the recommendations they gave, the time
44:15
for meditation came. The truth is that the first time I tried, nothing
44:19
happened at all. I think I couldn' t even concentrate The main reason
44:25
was because something inside of me kept saying that what I was doing was unknown
44:30
to a boy my age. But after that I started to try different kinds
44:35
of methods. Not only fasting, but I have this memory that the more
44:40
I tried it the more. I was convinced that it could be real,
44:45
especially because in my third attempt I could see something in my mind. It
44:47
was like the place where I said I was going to wake up, but
44:52
almost immediately I reacted in my bed. I remember in the fourth attempt,
44:58
where it didn' t work, I was already too disappointed and I was
45:02
about not to try again, but I saw a video of a girl claiming
45:07
that a method in particular did serve him. So I decided I' d
45:10
try that fifth time and if it didn' t work, I' d
45:16
definitely leave this whole shifting thing. It was several days trying to mentalize and
45:20
meditate until the time came. It should be noted that the last memory that
45:24
I have in my mind as my true reality, is that quarantine already had
45:30
a scheduled day to end and in fact, they already said that there was
45:32
a vaccine on the way. Very well after that I did this meditation for
45:37
finally reaching out to that reality of the universe of the magician Harry, and
45:42
I remember that on this occasion I felt it was something different. I mean,
45:45
if I could feel my soul coming out of my body, if that
45:50
makes some sense to my nose, then smells that I had put into the
45:54
script that I made to identify whether I had ached or not began to come
46:00
up. But all of a sudden, everything went black. And even though
46:04
this might well have been considered as having failed and had woken up again,
46:07
the truth is that at the time I couldn' t do it. It
46:10
was like I was just in the blue, like I stayed in some sort
46:15
of limbo, it was like I was part of the blue. I don
46:21
' t have many words to explain it, because I' ve never lived
46:27
anything like that, but then I felt like something pulled me out and after
46:31
that my whole vision got purple. Everything was purple. After that I woke
46:35
up again. At the time I was quite upset because I had felt something
46:39
ugly, it was as if I had fallen suddenly into my bed and as
46:45
if all my bones had been rebuilt. I can' t know what happened,
46:50
but I' m just saying it as I come up with words right
46:52
now. I think I lay in bed for about ten or maybe fifteen minutes
46:58
as I recovered from the pain I felt. It was like everything inside me
47:02
was messed up. But I finally got up I saw the clock and it
47:08
had only happened about half an hour from everything I had been doing. Almost
47:13
immediately I could notice the first thing different was that my violin wasn' t
47:19
in the same place I always left it and in fact, it wasn'
47:22
t anywhere. And even though that was weird for me at the time,
47:28
I didn' t take it into account, as I thought I could have
47:31
left it down or anywhere else as soon as I got down I could see.
47:35
The next strange thing. It was a photograph of my mom, my
47:38
grandmother and me in an amusement park. As such, I wouldn' t
47:43
have anything unusual, since obviously I had gone to the amusement park with my
47:49
mom, but I knew when she was. That picture had been taken when
47:52
I was twelve years old and by that time my grandmother had already died.
47:58
Besides that, I didn' t, I didn' t have any memories
48:00
that my grandmother would have gone with us to the amusement park. I went
48:06
down the stairs looking for my mom at the same time as I tried hard
48:12
to remember that day when the photo was taken. But, well, I
48:15
' ve been calling my mom for about three minutes, but I didn'
48:21
t get any answers. The house looked completely empty. This was very strange,
48:25
since my mom always warned me if I was going out and on that
48:30
occasion she had told me that I would be home all day. Besides,
48:34
we were still in quarantine. So the fact that I got out was hard
48:38
for me to believe. Although I quickly thought that maybe I had gone quickly
48:45
to the supermarket to buy something and believing that I could order some fritters for
48:51
me, I tried to dial him from the phone. I' m sure
48:52
we had it in the kitchen, as it made me lazy to climb the
48:57
stairs on my phone. However, I o o o o o o o.
49:00
They said the number I dialed didn' t exist or check the dialing.
49:04
I tried to do it again, but he couldn' t be missed
49:08
and thinking maybe I was forgetting a number or I was confusing it. I
49:13
just went back up to my room to call my mom from my phone.
49:16
The strange thing happened when I took my phone and realized that its casing was
49:22
very different from the one I remembered. At this point, however, I
49:27
was too disturbed by all the small changes that were taking place. I quickly
49:34
searched for my mom' s contact and dialed many times and didn' t
49:37
answer. I tried again and this time and he answered. He spoke to
49:42
me quietly and asked me what I wanted. I asked her where she was
49:46
and she told me she was working, that what she needed, that I
49:52
knew I couldn' t bother her if I was working or they could fire
49:55
her. At the time I couldn' t understand what was happening and I
50:00
felt very strange. I hung up on him and for a moment I thought
50:05
he was dreaming and that it was a strange dream, to be willing,
50:09
to change realities or something. I went back to bed and started breathing and
50:13
breathing, thinking that way I would wake up, but when I opened my
50:17
eyes, I was still in this place. I' ve been trying for
50:23
a long time, but I' ve done absolutely nothing. About ten o
50:28
' clock at night, my mom came home and asked me again if something
50:31
had happened to me or what was the reason I had called her, as
50:35
she had been worried that I had hung up on her, but I told
50:39
her I was fine. At that time I noticed that I had brought dinner.
50:45
He told me he brought my favorite dish, but it was the opposite.
50:50
It was a dish that I still don' t like, at that
50:55
moment I just sat at the table with her for dinner and even though I
51:00
hated food, so I was eating it, trying to assimilate everything that was
51:05
happening, because until that moment everything was very strange. In the end,
51:07
my mom broke the silence and told me my dad would come after me for
51:12
the weekend. I was surprised, because I never met my dad. He
51:17
knew his name. My mom had told me, but he had never been
51:22
present in my life. I think the last thing I knew about him was
51:27
that he was in America or something. However, he did not give any
51:31
maintenance and much less was part of my life. But in this reality.
51:37
Apparently, I did, because my mom also told me that I was too
51:40
sorry that I didn' t go last weekend and that I was saying that
51:45
I was going to make it up to myself by trying to sound casual.
51:50
I asked him about my violin, since I hadn' t seen him all
51:53
that time, but my mom looked at me strangely and asked me what she
51:58
was talking about that I had never had a violin. I replied that of
52:01
course if I had one and that, in fact, I had had classes
52:07
online when the pandemic had begun. I even told her my teacher' s
52:12
name. My mom really seemed to worry about what I was saying and told
52:15
me that, although she would like that to be real, she didn'
52:20
t think I could afford violin lessons, but if that' s what I
52:24
wanted I could ask my dad to see if he could buy me one at
52:29
the time. I no longer wanted to insist on the subject. Rather,
52:34
what I wanted was to know how I could return to my reality. I
52:38
' ve been trying basically all night. I went through a thousand videos,
52:44
although I haven' t seen any shift- related videos that mention that this
52:49
could happen, as I mentioned before. There are testimonies of people who claim
52:53
to have changed reality, but none of them were with a previous meditation or
52:58
something like this. Many claim that they were on the verge of death before
53:04
changing or that it was something like a failure in reality, but none mentions
53:07
anything like what I lived through. So I have no idea what to do
53:13
the next day. I knew that this whole quarantine issue in this reality advanced
53:17
in a very different way from mine. We were exactly on the same date,
53:23
but it wasn' t even close to finishing the opposite. It was
53:28
total chaos and the worst thing is that almost no one took it seriously.
53:32
Also almost immediately. I knew my mom had never worked making drawings for children
53:37
' s books. She works in a factory where they sew balls and also
53:43
that her boss is horrible and she hates it. But other than that,
53:46
she' s the same. And I really appreciate this, because if my
53:51
mom were, even if she was a little different, our relationship wouldn'
53:57
t be the same and I think I' d have gone crazy by now.
54:00
One of the most shocking things for me is that my grandmother is alive.
54:04
As I mentioned before, my grandmother died when I was younger. There
54:08
was no long struggle against any disease. Only one day he went to sleep
54:14
and he didn' t wake up anymore. The truth is, I always
54:16
remembered her with a lot of affection and I missed her. So having her
54:20
back makes me feel like I have some kind of second chance. I also
54:27
talked a little bit to my dad. He' s not a bad guy
54:30
and he seems to feel very guilty, because when he found out my mom
54:36
was pregnant, he ran away and didn' t know me until I was
54:40
five years old and even if it sounds a little shallow, that helped him
54:44
buy me the violin. I remember that when we went to the music store,
54:46
he was very impressed to see that I was already playing it, which
54:51
reaffirms my belief that this story is real and that it is not something that
54:55
I simply invented literally when I grabbed the violin or played it to perfection,
55:00
as I have this memory that I have been playing the violin for about seven
55:06
years. However, everyone around me claims that I had never played a violin.
55:12
I tried to find the teacher at the place where I learned to play.
55:15
However, that place is a pizzeria. This reality and my reality are
55:21
almost the same. People are practically the same, but there are small differences,
55:27
for example, the phone numbers, as mine, in my reality,
55:30
started with eighty- seven and have twelve digits, while here the phone numbers
55:35
are different. There are also certain places that I remember existed, but it
55:43
turns out they' re not here. And another thing is that they had
55:45
canceled a series that I liked a lot, but this one was canceled since
55:51
their first season and here, apparently, there are three seasons. I know
55:53
these are too subtle things, but they are details that make my reality different
56:00
from this truth. I have no idea how I ended up here. I
56:04
just know I can' t leave. I remember that in the kind of
56:07
script I had to do for shifting I had put that place ten years after
56:13
I searched a lot and found nothing, I came to the conclusion that maybe
56:16
when ten years go by, I' m not going to be here anymore.
56:21
But I don' t know if there' s anyone in the audience
56:24
who knows exactly what might have happened or what I can do seriously, I
56:30
' d really appreciate it. This is something that happened to me during the
56:38
pandemic and, to tell the truth, I think it is something that causes
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me a lot of guilt and somehow this could be some kind of confession,
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but I know that, although I have told people, they never believe me.
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I had no good memories about my older brother Hugo. He was two
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years older than me and the moment I was born Mom, he had something
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and died. I remember telling myself that I had killed our mother and how
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much she hated me. They weren' t just serious words. He was
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trying hard to be a jerk. He was always beating me or insulting me
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I remember there were even times when I was just asleep and in the middle
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of the morning, he would come and pull me down my ankle to make
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me fall out of bed. Although this doesn' t sound so serious,
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the truth is that my bed was a suspended bed about a meter away,
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so the hit was very strong. Many times I tried to tell my father,
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but he only told me to behave like a man and defend me.
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Even on one occasion when we were in face- to- face school,
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he pulled my pants down and threw me down the stairs, breaking my arm,
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just to impress a girl he liked. I remember that on that occasion
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my father was called to address and he just said it was no big deal,
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because the brothers were constantly making jokes and it was just boys' stuff,
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so at some point I would do something to him and then we'
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d be even. Although to tell the truth, I did not dare do
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anything for fear of how I could respond to the day when the pandemic was
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declared. I think there was no happier person on this earth than my brother
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was. After a bridge he said they were like holidays, besides that,
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since our father worked practically all day, we stayed alone at home. For
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me it was even worse torture, for if my brother was once an odious
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person, now I was the only victim within his grasp. I used to
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spend it locked in my room in fear of going out, even if I
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went to the bathroom. For me it was even worse after I found out
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that we would stay home much longer than we thought. And over time this
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spread so far that online classes began the truth. I liked this dynamic very
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much, because I felt that I could finally concentrate. Besides, as at
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that time, my brother started high school in quarantine, we had classes at
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different hours and that allowed me to go home for some things while he was
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in class. So I was pretty grateful for this whole situation, but it
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was also really boring. Online classes occupied very few hours of the day and
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after that there was not much to do. Or what to be more entertained
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with than watching online series or videos at that time. I suppose everyone will
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remember that he became very famous Tiktok and I mostly for being bored. I
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downloaded it and you could say that I became very addicted to it. I
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literally spent hours sliding one video after another, and that' s when,
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in one of the many options that came out to me, I knew the
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tulps. Until that moment I had never heard anything related to the subject,
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but the first video I saw of them represented them as an idea, not
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as a bad or diabolical thing. It was more like your thoughts became a
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little real. I don' t know exactly how to explain them without turning
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this into an encyclopedia. But in the video that I saw it was basically
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from a man who was quite spiritual and was exposing this kind of theory in
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which this planet, as well as the universe that makes it up, is
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a kind of tulp of an initial creator that we would call god or something.
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The truth is that I don' t remember much what that video was
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like, but the point is that at some point it deviated to the fact
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that the guardian angels could also be some kind of tulp, and that led
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me to think that if you could create a tulp, I could be my
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own guardian angel. All I wanted was for him to visualize himself sufficiently so
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that, perhaps in that way, my brother would see him and leave me
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alone. So I started researching the subject further, trying to see how I
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could manage to create a tulp quickly. I realized that, in fact,
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there were several ways to do it, but all of them involved a lot
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of meditation and, given the circumstances of that time, in which I had
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nothing better to do, because I decided that I wanted to do that.
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I remember I even drew it. He wanted it to look like an angel,
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but it also looked dangerous. Or something that would tell my brother that
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if he dared to touch my hair again, then he could hurt him a
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lot. At that point, I don' t remember wanting something bad to
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happen to my brother. After all, he was my brother and even though
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he had made my life miserable for almost my entire life, I didn'
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t want the evil to draw him I took inspiration from different images from the
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Internet and, to my point of view, it had turned out very cool.
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It had golden wings and a red helmet that seemed to be the head
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of a bird. On top of that, I had an armor and remember
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I also drew a sword, although I didn' t know very well what
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I would use such a thing for. I just thought it looked great in
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the drawing. Besides, I had the power to drain a person' s
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life if I wanted to, and once I finished designing it, I started
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doing all those meditation work to try to manifest it. I wouldn' t
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want to say exactly what method I used, because I don' t want
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to burden myself with any more guilt in my conscience than I charge right now.
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But it took about two months for me to accomplish nothing. In fact,
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I was already starting to screw up and want to throw in the towel.
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But I remember one night, while I was sleeping, I dreamt it
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was actually quite peaceful. The dream all this was like a field with fruit
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trees and grass smelled like wet soil and I felt too good with myself.
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Then I walked towards a specific tree because I saw that under it was a
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person and the closer I got, I realized that it was not a person,
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but my guardian angel, the one I had drawn and had been manifesting
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all that time. At first, he was just there. He didn'
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t seem to realize that I was walking towards him. He was reading a
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thick golden book with his free hand. I was floating an apple, I
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couldn' t believe what my eyes were seeing as soon as I was about
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a meter away. That' s when he closed the book and turned to
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see me. At that moment I felt realized as if nothing in the world
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could ever hurt me again. And even because of this sense of relief that
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I felt at the time, I remember I started crying as if I could
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finally let go of all that I had with me. He looked at me
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and told me everything would be fine. He hugged me with his wings and
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promised me that no one else would ever hurt me again. And after that
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I woke up at first. I wasn' t quite sure if the dream
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had been real. Obviously, I was aware that it had been a dream,
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but after meditating so much, and having studied the subject a lot.
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I knew that that dream I had had well could have been the interaction with
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the tulp. But while it might be that, I also had to take
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into account that I really wanted it to work and had to be realistic about
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it. That day was Saturday and I wanted to go to the bathroom,
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but I knew I had to wait until my brother left the house, as
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the night before I had heard that I had asked my dad' s permission
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to go to another boy' s house to play video games. He didn
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' t laugh at what time he planned to leave, but there was still
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noise outside the room, so he thought he was still there, although after
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half an hour I couldn' t stand it anymore and I squeaked open the
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door to walk into the bathroom. At first I didn' t see him
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anywhere, so I thought maybe at some point he was gone and I hadn
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' t noticed. Little by little, I began to walk more confidently.
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However, he jumped to take me down and asked me where I wanted to
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go. I told him to let go, but he wasn' t willing
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to let me go until I told him where he was going. So,
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in an attempt to get me out, I ended up telling her I was
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going to the bathroom and letting me go. At that moment he picked me
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up and started dragging me into the bathroom saying that he would take me.
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I' m not sure what he planned to do at the time. I
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know he held me by the neck as he walked into the bathroom. The
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door was totally fine by that time there was not a single stream of air,
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but when we were about to arrive, the bathroom door closed so tightly
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that we could even feel a stream of air. At that moment, Hugo
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felt so surprised that he even let me go. He turned to me and
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asked me what had happened. But at that point I started running in the
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opposite direction to get back to my room. I didn' t care what
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happened. All I cared about was getting away from him. I was in
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my room in a matter of seconds and closed the door. There was too
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surprised by what had happened and being a person who was not afraid of anything,
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he opened the bathroom door. I knew it because almost immediately I closed
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mine screamed and ran to my room knocking on the door and asking me to
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come in at the beginning. I didn' t want to open it,
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thinking it was one of his many jokes or that he was just doing it
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so that the moment the bra hit me or ended anything, he wanted to
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make me moments back. However, after a few minutes when I kept begging
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for serious entry, I began to get a little remorse, as his voice
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sounded like I really needed help, so I opened the door to him and
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at that moment he walked in and closed a door, telling me that someone
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had entered the house and was in the bathroom. I asked him who had
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come in and told me he didn' t know, but that he had
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a horrible costume and a red mask at the time I took my phone and
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called the police, but even though they told us they were going to send
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a patrol, they never arrived. After about an hour waiting for them,
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we decided to call our dad and when he found out, he left work
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to get home with us. However, when he entered he found no one,
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for there was no sign that the door had been for to give or
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that some window was broken and nothing of value was missing either. Of course,
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my dad was furious because he thought we played a joke on him to
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get him out of work. He scolded both of us and told us that
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if we did anything like that again, we' d regret it. And
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after that he went back to work. I remember claiming my brother and asking
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him why he had done that, but he was very quiet and only went
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to his room, where he locked himself up for the rest of the afternoon.
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After that, my brother was calm for almost two weeks. In fact,
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he was even becoming a nice person with me. Not that we were
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becoming great friends, but from time to time we were talking a little bit
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and because of this, I almost didn' t even think about the topic
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of tulp, until on one occasion my brother came to my room and asked
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me if I could lend him the charger of my computer because his had broken.
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He also told me it was strange, because it looked like someone had
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cut it with scissors, but he also told me it was probably him.
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I told him I was fine and the charger was on my desk, so
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he walked over there. By that time I was sliding videos on tiktok,
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so I wasn' t paying attention to what he was doing. But soon
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afterwards I heard he crushed a sheet of paper and after that he looked at
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me and told me you' re a bad baby. At that time I
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turned around to see why he was telling me that and I saw that he
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had in his hand the notebook in which I had been drawing my angel.
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At first I pretended not to know what I was talking about and he told
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me that I had planned it. Everything required me to know who was the
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person who had disguised himself as that thing I had drawn, but I told
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him I didn' t know what I was talking about and in part I
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was. I hadn' t had anything to do with anything I' d
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seen in the bathroom, but he didn' t believe me any minute.
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He already had me on the floor and beat me without any mercy saying I
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wouldn' t think of scaring him again. That way, I think I
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can say that was the hardest beating I' ve ever had and also the
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strongest I' ve ever had in my entire life. He opened my lip
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and also turned my nose off. I could try to defend myself, but
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he was much stronger than I was. To my luck, at some point
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we made so much noise that Dad came up to separate us. However,
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as was his custom. He took it as a brotherly fight and only told
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Hugo to go to his room and as I was complaining for a long time
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about my nose, he took me to the doctor, where they put me
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some kind of splint to accommodate it. I was very scared, as I
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knew my brother wasn' t going to leave it like this and the next
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day, as soon as Dad went to work and I stayed alone with him,
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it would be hell. I was really scared when I got home and
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I even locked the door safely and also put a piece of furniture in case
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I threw it away, I really thought I was capable of everything. I
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couldn' t even sleep I woke up with the slightest noise I heard,
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thinking it might be him I think it was around six in the morning when
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I heard my dad went to work and they only had to go about fifteen
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minutes before he heard my brother try to open the door. At first I
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heard he was bringing the keys, so I assumed he took it out of
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our dad' s room and although he managed to remove the lock from my
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door, the furniture he had put totally prevented him from passing. This frustrated
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him a lot and started knocking and kicking the door. He said yes,
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I wanted to stay there all day, but that would only make things worse
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for me. He also said that I was a man and I left at
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the time that my friend was no longer in disguise to scare him. I
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think he was like this for about half an hour until he left not before
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reminding me that at some point he would have to leave and that he would
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be outside waiting for me and I don' t know how to say this
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without sounding like a terrible person. But from one moment to the next I
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went from being very afraid to having hatred. Maybe it was the pressure of
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so many years, or I don' t know, but I know I
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felt a lot of hate, I wanted him dead and I thought if he
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wasn' t, my life would be so much better and everyone would be
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happier if they didn' t have to deal with people like him. I
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was so angry that I took a skateboard that my father had given me away
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at some point in the hope that I would be interested in a sport.
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But since I was never interested, I was just gathering dust in a corner,
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but at that point I was more than willing to hit her on the
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run until she promised to leave me alone. I remember carefully removing the furniture
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from the door to make as little noise as possible. I wanted to catch
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my brother by surprise, as I thought that was the only way I could
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beat him I went out and that' s when I saw him standing on
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the stairs waiting if I had taken him by surprise because I was looking at
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his phone. When he noticed me at first, he made fun of me.
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He told me that if I really thought I could do something with that
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skateboard, but at the time I was very angry and started running towards him
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screaming and shaking her. He went back trying to dodge the blows, but
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at some point I hit him and the blow was so strong that I opened
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his cheek. At that moment I stopped. I think he had more empathy
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than he did, and almost immediately I asked him if he was okay.
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But all he did was clean his blood and tell me he was dead and
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then start chasing me all over the house. He managed to corner me at
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the bar in the kitchen and I remember that while I was trying to protect
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my face as much as possible, I heard something was like a creak and
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after that, some steps that were on the bar fell. At first,
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I thought it was some tremor, but Hugo raised his face and I can
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almost swear that I saw him pale back and at that moment I could turn
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and I could not believe what I was seeing. It was my angel standing
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over the kitchen bar looking towards my brother and moving his head from one side
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to the other. I got up and tried to run in the direction of
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my brother, but when I just took a step, I felt like something
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was holding me by the waist, but this was something invisible, because there
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was nothing. He picked me up and then he took me out of the
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house. At that time I was so scared that I ran home from one
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of my times to try to ask for help. I told him that someone
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had entered the house and that my brother was still there. The neighbor called
1:15:08
other neighbors in the area and within minutes they entered the house. But when
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it all came in, it was too calm. No noise was heard and
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no one was in the kitchen either. I was after everyone, so I
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didn' t see this. But when we went up to my brother'
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s room, they said they found him there, but he was no longer
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alive. This was strange, as Dad assured me years later that they could
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never find an explanation for what happened to him. He got an autopsy and
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everything, but there was no reason. It was like he was just dead.
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Of course he had the blow I had hit on his cheek, but
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they said that that wouldn' t have been harmful enough to have killed him.
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And after his funeral, Dad never became himself again. He never left
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me alone again and was always paranoid that something happened to me. The rest
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of the pandemic I spent at the home of different neighbors who offered to take
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care of me, although most of them did because everyone believed that someone had
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gone into my house and did that to my brother. Since that day I
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haven' t seen my tulp again, but from what I' ve looked
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into them, you don' t have to think about it anymore to make
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it real. So I guess he' s still with me somehow, even
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if I don' t see him anymore. Stories written and adapted by Lisa Hernández