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4 Sucesos PARANORMALES Que No Te Dejarán Dormir - Historias De Terror - Voces De La Noche · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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