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- 0:05Since I remember, my grandmother was always complaining about a perpetual back pain,
- 0:09so I knew it was something I had had since I was very young and
- 0:14no matter what I took or how many doctors I had, none seemed to
- 0:20be able to help her with her problem. I remember especially how she always
- 0:24had to sleep on her side, because she said that if she slept face
- 0:29up, she felt like she was lying on stones and the next day her
- 0:33back would hurt twice as much as she normally did. I remember when I
- 0:38was about five or maybe six years old, he asked me to walk on
- 0:42his back in hopes of calming his discomfort a little. However, as soon
- 0:46as I got in, I don' t know how to explain it.
- 0:49It was as if in one part of his back he had a lump of
- 0:54invisible flesh or something like that. I remember from the impression I fell and
- 0:59hit my head with the corner of the kitchen table and opened my forehead.
- 1:03They had to take me to the hospital and put two stitches. This continued
- 1:08until I turned eight. That' s when my brother was born. At
- 1:14first he behaved like any of the other babies. It seemed adorable to me
- 1:19and I really wanted to be able to carry it, although everyone in the
- 1:25house was forbidden to me, because they said it was very small and I
- 1:29could release it. I was hoping to be big enough soon enough to be
- 1:34able to do it, but the best I could do was to push him
- 1:38in the carriola when we went out for a walk in the park another person
- 1:44who had not been able to carry him was my grandmother, not because of
- 1:47lack of desire or because of my parents' prohibition. As was my case,
- 1:49she tried to carry him the first day my brother left the hospital.
- 1:53However, from what my parents told me, his back hurt so much for
- 1:57doing that he was about to let go. Luckily, my dad managed to
- 2:05grab him before this happened. That was really weird for everyone. We knew
- 2:09that my grandmother couldn' t carry heavy things, but a newborn baby couldn
- 2:15' t weigh that much. As the years passed, we all noticed what
- 2:21at the time we thought was a clear preference for my grandmother on behalf of
- 2:24my brother, for although I could not say words at all, I always
- 2:30pointed it out and seemed to want to say something, because I was babbling
- 2:37like every baby trying to imitate the language around him. Dad used to say
- 2:40he wanted to be loaded by my grandmother, but, as I mentioned earlier,
- 2:46he just couldn' t without feeling immense pains for as much as she
- 2:51wanted. Still, he always caressed his face and hugged him to let him
- 2:54know that he loved him. That was the kind of woman that was my
- 2:59grandmother. He had an instinct to take care of others and make them feel
- 3:04loved. The first word my brother said was grandmother. I remember when she
- 3:12started trying to make full prayers one afternoon while playing with my brother on the
- 3:15living room floor and my grandmother went through something bent over by her severe back
- 3:21pain. He said something I couldn' t quite understand, although my brother
- 3:24repeated it as five times bad monkey grandmother, although at first I tried to
- 3:31understand it. A few minutes later I gave up and kept playing with the
- 3:36blocks to put together. When my brother turned five, I was already in
- 3:40high school by then, so I was no longer interested in playing with him
- 3:45or spending time. In general, I just wanted to be on my phone
- 3:52and listen to music with hearing aids. However, he was still very small
- 3:55and constantly glued to me to play or do something, even though it was
- 4:01very evident that what I wanted was to get rid of him. On one
- 4:06occasion, when we were at my grandmother' s, I saw my brother
- 4:11talking to my grandmother. Well to tell you the truth, I wasn'
- 4:16t talking to her directly. Rather, my grandmother was doing her things and
- 4:21my brother was talking to her with his back. It wasn' t weird
- 4:26when I heard my grandmother complaining about her back pain and saying she needed to
- 4:30lie down for a moment to the part that told my brother I' d
- 4:35talk to her friend later. That got a little strange to me, but
- 4:41in my role as a teenager, it gave me the same thing. My
- 4:45grandmother got into her room and my brother and I were left alone in the
- 4:48living room. I figured he' d go straight to watch TV, but
- 4:54instead he sat next to me and told me if I wanted to play a
- 4:58media game with him. I said no and stop messing around on it.
- 5:04He was quiet for a while and asked me what is of us, Grandma
- 5:09' s brother. Without looking up on the phone, I replied that my
- 5:15grandmother' s brothers were our great- uncle uncles. My brother kept thinking
- 5:19for a few seconds and asked me again why my grandmother carried Uncle Grandpa Octavio
- 5:25all day. You don' t think that' s why his back hurts.
- 5:29I always didn' t look too confused. I thought he was playing
- 5:34with me, so I went back to my phone, but he asked me
- 5:40the same thing again, so, following the game, I told him I
- 5:45didn' t know I probably didn' t have legs to walk, but
- 5:49right away, my brother told me if I had them I just didn'
- 5:53t want to walk. I began to think about it a little more seriously
- 5:57when I realized that we didn' t have a child a great- uncle
- 6:01named Octavio. It was true that my family was very large, but also
- 6:05very close, so they had introduced us all and often had parties where everyone
- 6:10was present. My grandmother' s parents had eleven children and by that time
- 6:16no more than eight were alive and none of them were called Octavio. I
- 6:23told him he was probably getting confused who told him he was probably trying to
- 6:29trick him or something. But my brother replied that no one had told him,
- 6:33that he had seen Grandpa Octavius on our grandmother' s back I tried
- 6:38to remember something that might seem to him, but it was just crazy.
- 6:45My grandmother couldn' t carry more than six kilos and that for a few
- 6:49minutes less. He was gonna carry an adult on his back just because he
- 6:53didn' t want to walk. But my brother told me that he was
- 6:57not an adult, but a child, a little cute bigger than him,
- 7:00but younger than me. I told him to stop making things up and leave
- 7:05me alone. After that I went back to my phone ignoring again what my
- 7:12brother was trying to tell me. I think it was about two or maybe
- 7:16three hours before my grandmother could get up again and as soon as she left
- 7:21her room, my brother started pulling my sweater sleeve and telling me that there
- 7:26it was on my grandmother' s back. I turned a little surprised,
- 7:32but there was no one there. I told him to leave me alone and
- 7:35stop making things up. Or I' d tell my parents that I was
- 7:41bothering Grandma, my brother had his eyes watered, he was frustrated, he
- 7:46stood on the couch and told me that he wasn' t inventing anything,
- 7:49that he was there. I didn' t pull my arm so he wouldn
- 7:55' t keep dirtying the couch and I told him to shut up at once.
- 8:00That' s when my grandmother noticed that we were arguing and went to
- 8:03try and stop the fight. He asked us why we were fighting and my
- 8:09brother, almost on the verge of tears from frustration, said that I didn
- 8:13' t want him to believe that the child was on his back I immediately
- 8:18told him that he was, because that was so silly. My grandmother told
- 8:22me that small children have imaginary friends and like the older one, I should
- 8:26play with my brother. My brother, far from being happy, was more
- 8:31offended and shouted again that he was not imaginary, that he was hanging on
- 8:37his back and that his name was Octavio. At that moment, my grandmother
- 8:41changed her face completely. She became pale as if she had been told that
- 8:46someone had died. Then he stared at my brother and asked him where he
- 8:52had gotten that name. My brother told him that the child had told him
- 8:56and that he had also told him that it was my grandmother' s duty
- 9:01to carry him and that he would never get off. From there I told
- 9:05her again to shut her mouth, because that sounded not only crazy, but
- 9:09it looked like it was really affecting my grandmother. But instead, my grandmother
- 9:16went back to her room. I followed her to see if she needed anything,
- 9:20but as I walked in I saw that she was trying to see her
- 9:24back in the huge mirror of her room. I was about to tell him
- 9:28that my brother had a great imagination and that we should not give him more
- 9:33importance. When he suddenly took an old key from above his closet and opened
- 9:39an old little trunk that had always been on the drawer where he kept his
- 9:43clothes, he began to look through a lot of papers and photos. She
- 9:50looked very desperate to find a specific one. When he finally found her,
- 9:56he looked at my brother and with tears in his eyes, asked him without
- 10:00and was the child on his back. My brother only had to look at
- 10:05the photo for a few seconds to say that, indeed, that was the
- 10:09child. My grandmother didn' t resist him anymore and started crying sitting on
- 10:13her bed. I looked at my annoying brother and told him that, because
- 10:18of him and his lies, Grandma was crying because she didn' t know
- 10:24what else to do. I left the room with my brother so my grandmother
- 10:26wouldn' t feel uncomfortable. However, after half an hour I decided that
- 10:33it was best to come in and ask her if she was okay or if
- 10:37she needed anything. Without realizing it, my brother was after me, I
- 10:43didn' t know how to start the conversation, so I only asked him
- 10:48who the kid in the photo was. My grandmother was a little calmer already.
- 10:52He still held the picture in his hands and his nose rang before he
- 10:56began to tell me the following. That child was his brother Octavio and,
- 11:01according to my grandmother' s own words, he was a total ill-
- 11:05bred. He enjoyed hurting other children and even killing two family dogs. My
- 11:13grandmother says she' s never met anyone who' s so evil at this
- 11:16young age. He says if you kept seeing him for a long time,
- 11:22you felt uncomfortable and couldn' t hold his eyes for long. And as
- 11:28the older sister, it was her responsibility to take care of the little ones.
- 11:33At that time, the parents went out to work all day and didn
- 11:39’ t care what their children ate or if they were okay. Then my
- 11:45grandmother had to take care of everyone by the time of the event. My
- 11:48grandmother was about twelve years old and there were only five brothers, including Octavius,
- 11:54who followed my grandmother at eight years of age. My grandmother doesn'
- 12:00t say that one thing she hated was that Octavio constantly asked her to carry
- 12:05it on her back. My grandmother didn' t like this for several reasons.
- 12:09Among them he seemed to enjoy hurting her. When I was upstairs.
- 12:15He surrounded her neck with his arms and fell back for the sole purpose of
- 12:18strangling her. The second reason was because Octavio was already too big and heavy
- 12:26to carry. My grandmother isn' t very tall, so she had a
- 12:31hard time doing it, and she was afraid Octavio might hurt her much more.
- 12:37However, my grandmother says that when she refused, Octavio was doing some
- 12:41terrible tantrums that woke the baby from the house. Later, my grandmother took
- 12:48a long time to get her to sleep again, so most of the time
- 12:52she ended up agreeing to carry Octavio, even with the fear that he caused
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- 13:09o o Octavio first seemed to be behaving well, but halfway he said he
- 13:15was already very tired and wanted my grandmother to carry him. My grandmother was
- 13:20already very tired because of all the clothes she was carrying, so she said
- 13:24no, but as Octavio' s custom was, she threw herself on the
- 13:30ground and started crying. So much so that my grandmother’ s two other
- 13:33brothers told her that they would carry the clothes so that she could carry Octavio
- 13:39and so they did. Upon arriving at the river, my grandmother began to
- 13:46hurry to wash, as she did not want to be caught overnight. In
- 13:48that place, his brothers went swimming in the river. While they were waiting
- 13:54for her. My grandmother kept an eye on them from time to time and
- 13:58warned them that she was not trying to swim deep into the river, as
- 14:03the branches of some trees could cause them to get stuck in them and they
- 14:09could drown from time to time. He had to raise his voice to listen
- 14:11to him. But other than that, there was no major problem. My
- 14:16grandmother says that when she was already wearing a little more than half of the
- 14:18laundry, Octavio came in completely covered in mud and soiled almost all her clothes.
- 14:26Again, my grandmother wasn' t the kind of big sister to beat
- 14:30up her brothers. Usually, if they were behaving very badly, one scream
- 14:35was more than enough. However, at that time he felt so much fury,
- 14:41so Octavio had done that he dropped a strong slap that left Octavio in
- 14:46shock, because never before had someone hit him and never imagined that his sister
- 14:52was the first. My grandmother says she started crying, but she was so
- 14:58upset that she didn' t care. I just wanted to hurry up so
- 15:01I wouldn' t come back. So late octavius stood on the shore weeping
- 15:05all the time, while his brothers kept swimming and my grandmother was hurrying with
- 15:09her clothes, but no matter how fast she rushed. The night caught up
- 15:16with them. He could still see well, so he wanted to keep going
- 15:20until he couldn' t see anymore. But he still ordered his brothers out
- 15:24of the river so they wouldn' t get sick. They obeyed her and
- 15:30went out. However, when everyone was out trying to recover the heat in
- 15:35their bodies, my grandmother heard someone jump into the river. He says that
- 15:39among the darkness he came to see that he was Octavius as disobedient as ever.
- 15:46My grandmother told him she couldn' t swim anymore or she' d
- 15:48get sick. But Octavio told him he didn' t care, and my
- 15:52grandmother, already quite sick of her brother' s behavior, got up and
- 15:58went in her direction to get him out of it. However, Octavio,
- 16:02seeing that my grandmother entered the river, began to swim in the river in
- 16:06the hope of not being caught, as she laughed saying that she could never
- 16:11catch him. My grandmother was about to give up and let him do what
- 16:15he wanted until it was time to leave. However, from one moment to
- 16:21the next, his brother was no longer there. For a moment he thought
- 16:25he was playing another joke on him, or maybe he couldn' t see
- 16:30it because of the darkness that was getting more and more in that place,
- 16:33but seeing he didn' t go out, he started calling him by his
- 16:38name and telling him to stop playing, but he didn' t answer him.
- 16:41So my grandmother started looking for him, believing he could have stuck himself
- 16:45with the branches and couldn' t get out of the water, but no
- 16:48matter how long he searched, he couldn' t find him. My grandmother
- 16:53ran home with her brothers to tell her parents what had happened. And even
- 17:00though they both tried to look for it, it was too late to see
- 17:04anything in the river, so they had to wait until the next day,
- 17:10where even some neighbors joined the search. To his misfortune. Indeed, Octavio
- 17:15' s body was trapped between the branches of the trees. My grandmother told
- 17:22us that when they pulled him out of there, she passed out and had
- 17:26had that back pain ever since. She always attributed it to him that when
- 17:32he fell it was on several rocks of the river. After telling us that
- 17:36story, my grandmother told her brother Octavio that she was very sorry that she
- 17:40could not help him, but that she had to leave her alone. He
- 17:44had to rest. However, the pain in my grandmother' s back only
- 17:48got worse, so after a few days she decided to go with a sorcerer
- 17:55to see if he could help her. Without me telling him anything. The
- 17:59sorcerer read that he had a soul attached to her and that soul wanted to
- 18:03see her suffer. It took a long time, it was several sessions with
- 18:07the sorcerer. My grandmother told us that while the sorcerer was doing his job,
- 18:12she could hear her brother' s voice. He was very angry and
- 18:18told him it was his fault that he had died, that it was his
- 18:22duty to take care of him and that because of my grandmother he had died
- 18:26and that is why he would never turn away from his side. But with
- 18:29a lot of work they got it and even though my grandmother' s back
- 18:33never looked good at all, I said that I didn' t feel so
- 18:37heavy anymore and that pain pills now if they were doing their effect. Before
- 18:41he believed that no one was born bad, he only became bad because of
- 18:45various factors in his environment. But after hearing my grandfather' s uncle Octavio
- 18:49' s story, I' m honestly not sure what to think or believe
- 18:55anymore, but I' m glad my grandmother could spend the last years of
- 19:03her life in peace anonymous account