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With some regularity we went to Toluca
to visit my grandparents. Our visits were

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more frequent when my grandfather died.
At that time, my grandmother was left

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alone and, due to the absence
of her husband, she fell into a

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severe depression. On one occasion,
one of her neighbors spoke to my mom

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to tell her that my grandmother was
in bad shape. She immediately went to

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Toluca to see her. My grandmother, as soon as she saw her,

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began to cry telling her that she
was very lonely and no longer wanted to

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live in that house where everything reminded
her of her family among her four children,

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they made the decision to take her
home so that she would not be

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the responsibility of one. Everyone would
take care of her for a month.

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So, she could be in different
places with her kids. The first time

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he came to our house in Guadalajara, my grandmother spoke very little. Most

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of the time. She was quiet
and absent, as if she were living

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in another time of her life.
Because of the support and affection we gave

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him little by little, he came
out of that sadness. Like my mom

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saw her so happy. He told
her she could stay longer in the house,

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not just the month they had agreed. My happy grandmother accepted after three

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months went to spend the days with
Uncle Juan. He went to Pachuca.

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We never heard back from my grandmother
that she got sick. The bad news

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was that the next time she came
to the house, she was sick.

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One of my uncles took her to
the doctor because she got sick. According

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to the doctor who treated her,
she had diabetes. We should have had

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extreme care in their diet and in
their medications. But when I saw my

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grandmother she looked like someone else,
she didn' t even look up when

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it came to talking, she couldn' t understand her clearly. She was

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dragging her tongue and, if that
were not enough, she was very tired.

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Most of the time she was asleep, she was no longer with her

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group of church friends. He stopped
attending religious events he loved so much.

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I didn' t exaggerate my grandmother
looked like someone else. When she sat

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on the living room furniture to watch
TV, she fell asleep and didn'

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t even see her. But that
wasn' t all. From that second

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time I came to the house,
I felt a strange feeling. Every time

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I got close to her. It
was like I was afraid of him.

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I no longer felt the warmth of
his closeness or confidence. It' s

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hard for me to explain. She
had her own room that was next to

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mine. At night I realized if
he got up, especially because he had

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a problem with his right leg.
He had trouble moving her when she was

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walking, and she listened clearly when
she was dragging her. The first night

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I was back home, I was
doing my homework, it was past one

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in the morning, and I didn' t realize when my grandmother got up

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because she was wearing hearing aids.
I was a little hungry and went to

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the kitchen. I just took the
light off my cell phone. I was

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surprised when I saw my grandmother standing
on the side of the stove, she

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didn' t move. I had
a look missing. The moment I saw

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her I screamed, but my grandmother
didn' t react. He just stood

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there and said nothing. He didn' t even seem to notice my presence.

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After I missed the scare, I
approached her to support her. I

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asked him if he needed anything.
She didn' t even listen to me.

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She stared at the wall I took
her hand to take her to bed

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in her room. She let herself
be guided without refusing. As I entered

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his room, I felt as if
the one else was inside. It was

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a weird feeling. I laid my
grandmother on her bed, covered her with

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her blanket and sat on her bed
for a while. My grandmother was still

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open- eyed. He didn'
t realize my presence much less what was

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happening. I can' t deny
to see her lying down with her eyes

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fixed on the ceiling. It scared
me a little. I preferred to leave

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the room and before leaving I heard
a very low sound. It was kind

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of a whisper, but I couldn' t tell it clearly. Just to

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get out of doubt. I turned
around and looked out at the window in

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case there was anyone out on the
street, but I didn' t see

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anyone. The street was completely empty. I only saw a dog lying in

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front of the house. The murmur
kept listening to him. I couldn'

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t figure out where it came from. As I searched several parts of the

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room, I began to hear it
louder. It was my own grandmother who

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murmured words that I couldn' t
tell. It was quite disturbing to see

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her talking with her eyes wide open. I started to move her so she

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could get out of the trance she
was in. I was talking to her,

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but she was still acting the same
without realizing my presence. I was

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scared to keep listening to her and
I walked out of the room. When

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I was in my room, I
felt safer. She was still nervous.

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I was walking from one place to
another trying to understand what was happening to

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my grandmother. I heard they were
banging on the wall It was three dry

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blows and they were soon more intense. I went back to Grandma' s

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room carefully. I opened the door, but my grandmother was already asleep,

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she had settled on her side and
no longer had her eyes open. It

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all seemed normal. The next morning
I heard my grandmother opening the door to

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the room. I went out to
talk to her and see how she was,

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but she didn' t even turn
to see me. He went to

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sit in the dining room chair and
kept his look lost. My mother went

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into the kitchen. She started making
breakfast I came up to tell her quietly

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what was going on with my grandmother. She stopped cooking. He gave me

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a lot of attention by telling me
that during the day he also had strange

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behaviors. The best thing was to
take her to the doctor. That same

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afternoon, my mother took my grandmother
to the doctor. He did the corresponding

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review saying that his sugar levels were
high. When my mother told him how

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strange she was. He pointed it
to the sugar levels in his blood.

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He gave her another treatment. Medicine
did its job. My grandmother started getting

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out of the absent state I had. He didn' t talk much,

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but at least his behavior was more
normal. In the afternoon I arrived from

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school, I sat next to her
to talk a little with her. She

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started telling me Isabel was a very
strange woman. She didn' t feel

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comfortable at home. Isabel was my
uncle Juan' s wife. While he

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told me that he no longer wanted
to go back to his son Juan'

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s house, because Isabel had a
behavior he didn' t like. She

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used to do rituals and work at
home. When I asked her what kind

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of jobs she was doing to her, she couldn' t answer me anymore.

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It seemed that his memory had been
erased because he grabbed his head trying

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to remember without getting it. I
told him it was normal for him to

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forget some things. With the support
of the family and the new treatment,

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my grandmother began to stabilize. He
was no longer so absent, but he

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no longer had the courage to go
to church. Only in the evenings did

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he keep rising as if he were
sleepwalking. My mother also had to see

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her, and I heard a cry
from her when she was found standing in

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the courtyard of the house looking toward
the sky. Like me, my mom

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took her to bed. I heard
her shut the door to the room.

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My grandmother wasn' t the same
back home. We stayed calm because he

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had the right treatment. When it
came time to go back to Uncle Juan

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' s house, she didn'
t want to. She said Isabel didn

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' t like it, because it
made it clear to her. Also,

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at night, she went into her
room and saw her doing strange things.

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My mom told him that this time
he' d go with his son.

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If things remained the same, I' d do something about it. He

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also had to understand that anyone who
came to a house changed the family dynamics.

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It was a matter of the two
adapting over time. Everything would be

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fine. My grandmother felt like accepting
what my mom told her. A few

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days later he went to my uncle
Juan' s house. It all happened

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in the most complete normality, or
at least that' s what we thought

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because we no longer heard from my
grandmother until one night the house phone rang.

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I was the only one who was
awake in the house. On answering

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the phone. It was my grandmother' s voice that asked for my help,

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but I couldn' t quite understand
him because there was an interference that

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no longer allowed me to listen.
Then the call was cut off I dialed

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the phone, but no one answered
me. I was restless. I didn

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' t know if I woke my
mom up to tell her what happened,

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but I was in doubt that everything
was a false alarm and Grandma was just

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awake like she did in the house. The phone rang again. As soon

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as I answered, I asked my
grandmother to talk to me. What yours

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gave you. It wasn' t
her voice, it was my uncle Juan

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' s, telling me that Grandma
had gotten serious and they had to take

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her to the hospital as a matter
of urgency. At the time, she

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was being channeled into the emergency room. I told her that my grandmother had

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called me minutes before he called me, but she told me that it couldn

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' t be because my grandmother couldn' t have called in the state she

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was in and that I had been
confused. I wanted to tell you it

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wasn' t a mix- up. My grandmother had really spoken to me

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and it was her house number.
I knew it because I had it on

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my cell phone, precisely for any
emergency that came up with it. I

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didn' t want to discuss the
call anymore. I asked my uncle where

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she was interned. She told me
that because of the complexity of her illness,

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she had been transferred to the medical
center in Mexico City. They were

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already on their way in the ambulance. They had allowed him and his wife

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to go with her. There was
no need to wake my mom. She

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was already awake when she heard it
sound. The phone immediately changed and told

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me they got him a bus ticket
to go to the hospital. I didn

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' t want to let him go
alone because I had a bad feeling between

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the two of us. We packed
our bags and went to the bus station

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while we were on the truck.
I couldn' t stop thinking about my

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grandmother' s call, but I
couldn' t keep thinking about it because

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my mom got another call. He
told me he didn' t know the

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number, but he answered thinking it
was his brother Juan. I couldn'

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t believe when I heard my mom
asking my grandmother what was going on from

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the seat I was sitting in,
I heard my grandmother' s voice telling

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her to help me right away,
she cut off the communication. Imagine how

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we both got together. We wanted
to be able to fly to the hospital

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immediately. At noon we arrived at
the medical center. In the lobby was

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my uncle Juan, my mother immediately, asked about my grandmother' s condition.

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He, with pain in his face, said that his condition was complicated.

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It was very serious. My mom' s reaction went to ask her

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a lot of questions and I think
she was right to tell her that she

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was very well and controlled of her
illness. She wondered what had happened to

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get her like this. My uncle
was quiet. I had a big doubt

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about the way my grandmother communicated with
me. I asked my mom to come

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up and see her after Isabel came
down. As soon as I arrived in

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the room, there were several people
from the hospital attending to her. I

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wanted in, but the nurse wouldn' t let me in. He told

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me he couldn' t see her
anymore. At that moment. My grandmother

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went into cardiac arrest. They gave
the hour of his death at three fifty

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- five o' clock in the
afternoon. I couldn' t believe what

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I was living like from one moment
to another had been destabilized in such a

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way as to die. Before I
told my family, I sat on the

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waiting room chair to try to sort
out my thoughts. Then I heard the

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voice of my grandmother speaking to me, but I couldn' t see her

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until I saw her reflection in the
glass of the hospital window. It was

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she I turned back to see if
she was there, but there was no

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one. It was her spirit that
kept asking me for help, but she

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couldn' t understand why she did
it if she was already on another plane.

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It was just a moment when I
saw her. Then he disappeared.

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I tried to keep talking to her, muttering in voice. He goes down

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to my grandmother telling her to tell
me what happened to her, what she

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needed. It was important to tell
me, because I didn' t know

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how to help her. I didn' t get any answers right away.

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I went down to the first floor
to give my family the terrible news in

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the lobby there were already more relatives
among cousins, uncles and more relatives.

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As soon as I told them that
my grandmother had passed away, they were

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all appalled at the news and we
fell like a bucket of cold water.

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I didn' t mean to tell
them that I could see and listen to

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my grandmother after she died, because
I didn' t understand it or know

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what to think about it either.
I saw two of my aunts who got

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away. My uncle Juan began to
carry out all the formalities for the delivery

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of my grandmother' s body,
while Isabel left. I had no idea

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where he was going, but he
looked calm. I understood that very well,

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because she wasn' t directly related
to my grandmother. She was the

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daughter- in- law, and
as little as she knew, the two

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of them didn' t have the
best relationship. I just understood it when

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I heard one of my aunts talk. She said Isabel had killed her because

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when her mother was with them she
was very well controlled and without any problems

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with her diabetes. She said it
was very rare that only when she went

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to Juan' s house did she
get sick. I intervened to tell them

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that my mom also took her with
a diabetes doctor and had managed to stabilize

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her very well. When he left
the house. That' s when it

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started getting bad. My aunt said
that this woman is a witch who surely

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gave her one of her concoctions so
that she would no longer be a hindrance

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to her relationship. It seemed a
little exaggerated to me that without any proof,

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my aunt would say that. I
had a big doubt why my grandmother

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was asking for help. I was
beginning to think it was true what he

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was saying. It is, moreover, to say that it was difficult and

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hard to see my grandmother' s
body from or inside a coffin and more

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because of the conditions in which she
died. That night we set her up

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in a funeral home near downtown.
It was a spacious place with a room

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for family to rest. It made
me very sleepy in the early morning.

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My mom didn' t want to
go to sleep, I insisted, but

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she refused. One of my cousins
listened to me and wanted to go to

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the room with me. As soon
as I put my head on the pillow,

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I fell asleep. The same thing
happened with my cousin. During deep

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sleep. I heard my grandmother'
s voice talking to me. I woke

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up right away. I thought it
was all about a dream but again I

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heard them whispering. I turned around
with my cousin. She was still asleep,

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I got up and left the room. The funeral parlor was in very

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little light. Most of those present
were asleep. That' s when again

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I heard my grandmother talking to me
no longer had any doubts. It was

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she who did not know why she
could not leave this world and rest in

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peace. When I saw the coffin
I intended to approach him, but I

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couldn' t do it. There
was my grandmother' s body. I

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was afraid to see her, move
or open my eyes. Still I approached

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to see her, but before I
did a scream it got me out of

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my thoughts. She was my cousin
who screamed very scared. It was so

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much his impression that he kept screaming
and shaking. Her whole body was shaken

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by fear I approached her to ask
who she had seen. He started saying

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it was Grandma. Grandma had spoken
to him, there was no doubt.

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She was really my grandmother. His
spirit could not rest. I went with

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my mother to tell her that I
saw her, too. It was necessary

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to do something for his soul,
because it was definitive that he could not

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rest in peace, but my mother
was devastated by the pain. It wasn

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' t the time or the place
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clock in the morning, the funeral
parlor had to be vacated. The mass

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of body present was made at nine
o' clock and then taken to the

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cemetery to bury it. The whole
family was hurt by my grandmother' s

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unexpected death. After Mass we went
to the cemetery, when we arrived two

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gravediggers began to carry out the work
of opening the tomb. It was a

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property my grandparents bought. There was
my grandfather' s body and now it

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was up to her to rest in
that place. At the time the workers

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removed the tombstone, they were surprised
by what they found inside the tomb,

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a doll made of grotesque clay.
Next to my grandmother I had several nails

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embedded in different parts of the body. In the right leg had the largest

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and in the heart the other.
Besides, the mud doll was tangled with

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barbed wire. Two of my aunts
got bad because they immediately left with complaints

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to my uncle Juan, saying Isabel
had been the cause of her mother'

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s death. They wanted to know
where Isabel was, because she didn'

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t show up at the funeral home
or the cemetery. My uncle didn'

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t know what to say. He
couldn' t handle the claims anymore.

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He left the cemetery. My aunt
grabbed the doll and put it in a

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plastic bag. She took him to
someone who knew about it. I didn

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' t really know what my aunt
did, because we didn' t stay

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in Mexico City any longer. I
went back to my mother the next day.

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I didn' t see my grandmother
or listen anymore. That was the

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witchcraft that didn' t let my
grandmother rest. Story written and adapted by

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Adriana Cuevas. One