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We believed that in Ciudad Juárez we
would find new opportunities and a better future

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for our family. Arriving at the
border, my children were very excited to

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start a new life in a house
that we thought was perfect from the very

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beginning. The house was old,
but very well maintained, with a facade

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that had its rustic charm inside it
was ample and everyone found their space in

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our new home had three bedrooms,
one for my wife and me, one

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for our eleven- year- old
son and one for our fifteen- year

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- old daughter. We lived in
a colony outside the city. The first

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months in our new house in Ciudad
Juárez were a lot of activity and adjustments.

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Despite the chaos of those first few
months. We all started to notice

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strange little things in the house.
They were such subtle details that we could

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easily have overlooked them, but how
they happened. We often realized something was

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going on. We felt a weird
cold in the rooms that should be hot.

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We saw the curtains moving without air
and shadows going where they shouldn'

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t. One day, my son
told me that his toys weren' t

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where he left them, but we
thought he might have forgotten where he put

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them. My wife noticed that some
doors were closed by themselves. I thought

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it might be because the floor was
cool, something that could happen in an

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old house, but she didn'
t even know with the soft murmur that

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sometimes it was heard in the living
room as if someone was whispering. At

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first, we thought it was the
wind or a radius of some neighbor who

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stayed on. These things happened from
time to time they were accumulating until he

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noticed too much on a Sunday morning, the house smelled of fresh coffee and

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the laughter of my children was heard. Watching TV, I decided to go

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out in the yard while my wife
was making breakfast. My first task was

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to water the plants. I went
where we kept the hose. Upon arriving

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what I saw made me stop from
the back door to the pool. There

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were small prints like a baby dyed
with intense red. For a moment I

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stood without understanding what I saw with
fear and bewilderment. I crouched down to

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see a closer print I touched.
The red liquid was viscous and moist.

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It looked like blood, not knowing
what to do. I took the hose,

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opened the tap at maximum pressure and
started cleaning the prints trying to erase

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them. The water dragged the red
color until it disappeared, but I couldn

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' t help feeling restless. Just
as I finished erasing the blue plus prints,

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my son showed up at the back
door. I left the hose and

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followed him inside trying to forget the
bewilderment and concentrate on the moment. My

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wife had made breakfast. I sat
at the table, but I felt confused,

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very much in my thoughts. I
was so distracted that when my wife

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gave me a cup of coffee,
I just took it and gave her a

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sip without realizing that I was boiling
the coffee, burned my mouth and throat,

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causing me a severe pain. After
trying to relieve the burn with cold

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water, we went to the nearest
pharmacy that had a doctor. The trip

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to the pharmacy was quiet. My
children were worried and my wife was trying

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to stay calm. The burn turned
out to be more serious than we thought

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and the doctor recommended special treatment to
heal well. After the coffee incident.

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Boiling and visiting the doctor, I
accepted a medical treatment that would force me

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to stay home for ten days.
The first few days in the house nothing

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unusual happened. I was recovering and
working a little bit on the computer,

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but as I was all the time
in the house, I started to look

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at things that didn' t fit, toys that appeared in places, weird,

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drawings that I didn' t remember
seeing and things from me that moved

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on their own. At first I
thought that my children, especially the youngest,

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were doing their own, because it
has always been very restless. But

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one morning, when my children were
in school and my wife had gone shopping,

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I came across one of those oversights, a toy figure that I was

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sure had kept the day before.
I was back in the middle of the

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hall. There was no way my
children would have done it, the house

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was empty. Only I was there
at the time I remembered the red baby

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prints by the pool. The ten
days of rest had already passed and that

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last night at home, before returning
to the office, he was awake in

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bed, looking at the ceiling with
the moonlight, entering through the window.

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My wife slept quietly next to me. During those days I noticed that he

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looked at me weird as if he
perceived what was troubling me. I decided

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to talk to her about my recent
behavior. I asked her how she felt

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in the house, if she was
comfortable or if something bothered her. Your

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answer surprised me. Instead of calming
me down, he asked me the same

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thing. I took air and told
him about the strange things I had seen

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during my rest as objects that changed
places without explanation and the persistent feeling that

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we were not alone. She listened
to me quietly, but by mentioning the

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blood tracks near the pool, something
she had tried to keep secret for fear

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of sounding crazy, her expression changed. I needed you to know the truth.

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Then she told me she had also
felt strange things, but she thought

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it was her imagination or the stress
of moving. He told me the little

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things he had noticed but ignored,
believing that stress and change were to blame.

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He also mentioned what our children had
told him about things that had seen

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what our daughter had said weeks ago. Now it made sense in that house

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things were happening. We came to
the conclusion that our house had things we

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didn' t understand. The appearance
of blood tracks near the pool had been

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particularly alarming, an event we had
never seen in the house, where the

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incidents had been minor and less intimidating. This led us to accept that we

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did not believe we were in danger
or think that the house was haunted in

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the traditional sense. It was clear
that we had to get used to living

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with the weird as part of our
daily life. Our talk lasted until very

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late. Three months after that night, everything returned to normal and the small

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oddities of our house became part of
everyday life. One night on the way

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back from work. Before I could
talk about dinner, my wife told me

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seriously that the children had already eaten
because they were punished. He proposed to

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go out to dinner alone and I
accepted. As we drove downtown, to

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our favorite restaurant, I noticed the
nervousness in my wife. The atmosphere in

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the car was heavier than usual.
Then, while we were in the car,

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my wife told me something very delicate
with a trembling voice that was barely

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heard from the noise of the car. That afternoon, our daughter wouldn'

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t come down for lunch. My
wife went up to her room. When

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she came in, she found her
crying very loudly. The reason was something

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we didn' t expect. Our
daughter, who had barely turned sixteen.

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A month ago I was pregnant when
I heard this I stopped the car at

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once. I needed to understand what
was happening, because this was going to

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change our lives with the voice broken
by confusion and fear. I asked my

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wife to explain everything. She told
me that since our daughter' s first

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day, in her new high school, she had noticed something strange. Two

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boys who looked older and who were
foreigners, used to park their car in

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front of the school. One day
during the recess, our daughter heard three

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of her classmates plan to escape school
to meet those boys. As she also

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liked them, she decided to join
them. The four of us managed to

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get out of school to go with
the foreigners. They were taken to an

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unknown place. I didn' t
need my wife to say any more.

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The rest of the story was clear. I felt too angry. I didn

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' t know how this happened.
My first instinct was to seek justice for

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what they had done to our daughter. I imagined facing those strangers by making

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them pay for their shares. My
wife explained to me that those responsible no

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longer appeared in front of high school
since the incident. Our daughter' s

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anguish came not only from her unexpected
pregnancy, but also from not knowing who

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the father was and that she would
have to face the consequences alone. The

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conversation that followed was one of the
most difficult of my life. We agreed

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that, despite the problems and pain, the most important thing was to make

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sure that our daughter did not feel
alone. We had to give her the

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support and resources necessary for her pregnancy, making sure she knew her family would

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be by her side. Upon returning
home, we sat down to talk to

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our daughter and agreed that she would
leave school and that the next day we

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would take her to the doctor to
start a proper follow- up of her

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pregnancy. With the passing of days
we realized that our daughter noticed the strange

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things of the house more than we
did, as she stayed at home all

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day and, moreover, with pregnancy, she was more sensitive to what was

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going on. There began to be
details that were passed to us changes in

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the temperature of the rooms and noises
of steps in the house. The weirdest

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thing was those step noises. Only
she listened to them as much as we

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tried to listen. We didn'
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three months since we heard about our
daughter' s pregnancy. One Sunday morning

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she approached me scared. He told
me he' d seen a kid playing

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in the yard, but he lost
sight of him. When he went to

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the hallway leading to the pool,
his words worried me a lot because I

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feared what I might find with my
heart racing. I went to the yard

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towards the pool. There again I
found those tiny footprints of Baby in a

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deep and unmistakable red near the pool. Quick, I grabbed the hose and

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started erasing the prints, as I
had done before. As I was finishing,

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my wife joined me I told her
I was cleaning dog excrement. I

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knew my lie was obvious, both
to my wife and to me, but

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it was necessary, as our children
were close and could hear. We knew

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that what was happening was inexplicable,
but we also knew that we had to

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protect our children from being frightened,
especially because the blood tracks appeared just after,

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well, that my daughter said that
she had seen a child something clearly

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abnormal. That night, after our
children fell asleep, my wife and I

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discussed how to prevent our daughter from
meeting back with what she had seen or

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what was manifesting in our house.
The idea arose almost instantly, when we

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heard the first drops of rain hitting
the windows, we decided to use the

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next heavy rains as a perfect excuse
to change the distribution of the rooms in

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the house. We invented a concern
about the impremeability of the roof in our

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daughter' s room, saying it
showed signs of leaks. We explained to

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our daughter that, as a preventive
measure and until we hired someone to make

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the arrangements, it would be better
if she temporarily moved to our room,

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which was in a part of the
house with no view to the courtyard.

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That way I' d avoid seeing
something disturbing. My wife and I would

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switch to our daughter' s room. During this time. Our daughter accepted

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the proposal. The first week after
moving our daughter, she passed with a

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calmness that only appeared to be normal
with the usual oddities of our house.

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Ten days after the change, one
morning before going to work, my daughter

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approached me and told me something that
had happened the night before. He told

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me with a trembling voice that in
the night, when everything was quiet,

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he began to hear footsteps on the
roof. Those steps felt right above where

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she slept. He said he'
d heard those noises before, but never

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so clear or so often. What
was scaring him the most was that it

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seemed that whoever was walking on the
roof only moved over his room without going

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to other sides of the house.
The steps did not stop or change course

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as if she were the reason for
those weird noises. When she told me

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that, I was very scared of
the idea that those weird things that happened

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to us now followed our daughter,
even though we had changed things in the

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house. I was worried and it
made me feel really bad it was like

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the things that were in our house
had something to do with her. After

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work, we were having dinner as
a family and talking about how we had

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gone in the day. But suddenly
my son said something that broke the peace

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of mind. While she was eating, she said her sister was going crazy.

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His sister, who was sitting next
to him, reacted immediately and elbowed

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him in the angry stomach. I
intervened quickly by scolding my son for saying

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something so ugly and my daughter for
responding with blows. I reminded them not

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to say things that hurt or respond
violently. I looked at my wife to

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understand why my son, son,
had said that. My daughter told me

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what happened that afternoon. Our daughter
had gone out into the courtyard to look

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for a moment of calm, to
relax a little bit of being in the

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house all the time, but a
few minutes after leaving, she returned to

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the house very upset and almost crying
in tears. He explained that he had

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seen again the child he had spoken
of days ago and said that he was

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in the courtyard. Looking at her
right away. My wife and son went

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out with her in the yard,
but they didn' t see the child

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that our daughter described in such detail. She was sure the boy was there,

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but for the others, the yard
was empty. This incident caused my

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son to say that ugly thing at
dinner and also increased our concern about how

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our daughter was. Both emotionally and
mentally. We knew we had to be

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cool with our kids about what we
were living on. Telling them the truth

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about the blood tracks was difficult,
but necessary for our daughter not to feel

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alone or think she was losing her
mind. I told my children about everything

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that had happened since we moved into
the house. I focused especially on the

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blood tracks that had appeared near the
pool, not once, but twice.

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At first I saw that my children
did not believe me at all it was

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very important for us to make it
clear that we believed that the child that

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my daughter said she saw was the
same one that had left the prints.

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This was necessary for her to feel
that what she saw was real and that

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she was not alone. I told
him what he saw was real, even

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if we couldn' t see it. After months, my daughter had her

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baby. The birth of my grandson
brought much joy to our family the first

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two weeks after he arrived. The
weird things that had bothered us before seemed

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to have calmed down. Or maybe
we were so happy with the new family

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member that we didn' t realize
those things. But the calm was interrupted.

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My son and I decided to take
advantage of the sunny afternoon to work

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in the garden I asked my son
to go to the pool by the hose.

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I saw him from afar and when
he ducked down to pick her up,

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he tripped over the hose and fell
to the ground. I ran to

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help him worried he' d hurt
himself. But what I saw as I

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approached was much more worrying than a
simple fall. My son' s shirt

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was stained with blood, but not
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I would have thought, but because
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had appeared again near the pool.
The weirdest thing of all was that,

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despite the clear evidence on his clothes, my son couldn' t see the

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prints on which he had fallen or
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This new incident left me very confused
and worried about my son' s inability

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to see what was so obvious to
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Later I decided to talk about it
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in the room rocking her baby I
explained to her why we had moved her

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in the room a few months ago, mentioning the moment she started seeing the

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child in the yard and then the
things only she could see. We were

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very worried and we didn' t
want her to be more exposed to whatever

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was going on, especially in her
state. My daughter understood that we had

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not lied to her for lying,
but to protect her. At that time,

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my wife sat with us and I
took advantage of it to discuss the

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subject, stressing that the fact that
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of the summer I said that was
not normal and that we could not keep

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ignoring that something strange happened here,
something that seemed to focus on her and

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the baby. The room where she
and her Baby slept, which should have

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been one of the hottest in the
house, because it gave her the sun

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from eleven in the morning to four
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This worried us a lot because we
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sick. In view of this situation, we decided to change rooms. Again,

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my wife and I returned to our
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hers taking the baby with her no
more than two days after the change,

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the room, where we were already. My wife and I recovered their normal

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temperature, while the room my daughter
and her baby had changed to, began

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to feel cold. Again it was
as if the cold followed her. Seeing

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that things remained the same, we
decided to try another change of rooms,

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this time exchanging our children' s
rooms. We hoped that this adjustment could

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offer some relief, but the solution
was temporary. Two days after the change,

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the room my son now occupied stopped
feeling cold, while my daughter'

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s new room and her baby fell
back into that weird cold. My wife,

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who had made friends on the block, shared with me a talk she

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had with one of her friends.
This friend, hearing what we were facing,

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suggested that if things got worse,
we should seek the help of a

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woman known in the area as Joba. As he was told, Joba had

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a certain reputation for dealing with the
unexplainable. When my wife mentioned this during

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dinner, our daughter asked if she
was a witch. My wife said she

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wasn' t sure. I just
knew I could help. The idea of

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looking for someone like Jobba U was
much discussed. Over the next two days

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we talked about the possible consequences.
Finally, we came to the conclusion that

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we should explore all available options.
We decided that we would go to see

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Jova, the only one who would
not go was my son, He had

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nothing to do there. One cloudy
afternoon, my wife, my daughter,

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with her baby and I went to
the house of Jova, which was in

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one of the oldest areas of the
city. Jova' s house was at

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the end of a street. The
facade was dark and covered with vines.

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I remember the house had a small
garden full of all kinds of plants and

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herbs. When Joba opened the door, it was not the typical image of

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an old woman. This woman emanated
power and mystery. His gaze was penetrating

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and his posture imposed respect or rather
provoked a respectful fear. When we saw

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her, we all took a step
back, thinking about leaving before we got

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into something that clearly went beyond what
we had thought before we could decide.

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Jova' s voice stopped us from
saying that he knew why we were there

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and that he wouldn' t do
anything to us. As long as we

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paid him well, we looked among
ourselves for a sign of what to do.

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My daughter' s determination with her
baby in her arms made me understand

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that we were willing to do whatever
it took to find a solution. We

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went into the house. Once inside. The interior was even more intimidating.

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The house was full of scary objects. Jova took us to a room she

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used as her workspace. The air
was impregnated with strange smells, very carefully

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and with a knot in the throat. We started telling Jova everything we had

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ever lived. We told him about
the blood tracks from the weird cold that

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followed my daughter and her baby.
He listened without saying anything with his hands

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together and looking at us very carefully. When we finished counting everything, Joova

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asked us if we were willing to
leave the house. I knew moving could

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be the safest thing to do,
but I also knew it wasn' t

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easy to do that. I told
him leaving the house wasn' t an

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option for us. She shook her
head and said that what we described was

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not an ordinary spirit or a bad
energy, that this was something older or

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stronger. If we wanted to stay
in the house, she could help us

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for a price. I told him
the money wasn' t a problem.

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He said that what followed my daughter
was death and explained that the cold we

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felt was not a simple change in
temperature. It was the manifestation of death

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itself and obviously neither she nor anyone
could do anything directly against death, but

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it offered a way to keep it
away. It wouldn' t be easy

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and it would be painful for my
daughter and the baby, but it was

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the only thing we could do.
We hold hands looking for support among ourselves.

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I asked him what Job implied,
explaining that he was going to mark

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their arm with a piece of hot
metal. Just listening to a brand of

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fire made us tremble. He said
that this mark would not be a simple

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scar, it would give spiritual protection
that would prevent death from taking their lives.

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The silence that followed was heavy.
My daughter asked if it would hurt

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While hugging her baby more strongly,
Joba said yes, the pain was part

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of the process, it was the
sacrifice needed to get protection. The heat

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of metal would not only mark the
skin, but would also seal the pact

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between us and the forces that would
protect us. After a pause where each

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of us thought about what it meant
to go through that procedure, Jova kept

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talking. He said he would also
give us an object to detect the presence

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of death in the house. No
matter the temperature changes, he pulled a

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small book with all the blank leaves
out of a drawer. He explained that

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this book was delighted. When death
was near, the book would open itself

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and the leaves would begin to move. That way we' d know if

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it was close. Jova recommended that
my daughter always carry the book with her.

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If you were to be in the
room, you should put it by

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your side and be attentive to any
movement. That would be your signal to

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act or change. On the spot. Everything Jovan was telling us sounded logical,

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not on a rational level, but
if we were already accepting that something

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weird was going on in the house, what Joba said made sense to some

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extent. But marking my daughter and
my little grandson as animals seemed too much

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to me. I asked him if
we couldn' t just take the book

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without making the marks. Johova looked
at me seriously and said that the book

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only served to detect, did not
provide protection without the marks we would know

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when it was near, but we
would remain completely vulnerable. The final decision

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was my daughter' s. After
thinking for a while, she agreed if

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this could protect her and her baby
from a tragedy. Then it was worth

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the pain. It hurt my heart
to see her make this decision, knowing

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the pain it would entail, especially
for the baby. Jova prepared everything very

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carefully. The metal warmed up to
red- hot and my daughter and then

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the baby got the marks on their
arms. The baby' s cries of

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pain cut off the air and each
scream hurt in our souls. My daughter

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kept the procedure with tears on her
cheeks without making a single sound, but

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her eyes showed the immense pain she
felt Once the ritual was over and the

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marks of fire were well done.
Johova put an ointment on the wound.

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That ointment seemed magical because as soon
as he put it on the baby he

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stopped crying instantly, as if the
pain disappeared suddenly I took a lot of

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money out of my wallet and gave
it to Jova. At that point,

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she gave us the book and we
left there. When we arrived at the

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house, the first thing we did
was go to the room, where my

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daughter and Baby were going to sleep. The atmosphere in the house felt heavier.

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My daughter put the book on the
bed to our surprise and astonishment.

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As soon as the book touched,
the bed opened suddenly and the leaves began

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to move from side to side as
if an invisible wind were pushing them she

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quickly grabbed the book. He closed
it fast and hard and we all went

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to the dining room carrying the book
with us. A few minutes later,

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my son came down and immediately noticed
the attention. He asked how we were

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doing. I asked my daughter to
explain it to him and she showed him

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the mark that Jova made and also
the mark on the baby' s arm.

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My son looked at the marks,
I explained to him that those marks

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should keep his sister safe and the
Baby I also told him something very important

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about the book they gave his sister. He shouldn' t touch it,

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rip off a leaf, scratch it, or throw water on it. I

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warned him seriously. I knew my
son well and his tendency to disturb his

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sister, especially at critical times.
My son looked at me slowly nodding that

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he had understood the seriousness of the
matter. Acer Pó seriously what I told

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him. The night fell with a
louder silence than usual. My daughter put

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the book on a piece of furniture
next to her bed. The leaves began

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to move alone, making a whispering
noise that filled the room. Every time

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death was near, she watched the
book move, confirming that something else was

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with us. My wife, seeing
the fear in our daughter' s face,

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decided to stay with her overnight.
The idea of leaving her alone in

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such circumstances was unthinkable to try to
forget the danger posed by the book.

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They left the radio on. Three
days passed and the room was no longer

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cold. The book continued to detect
sinister presence every night. The lack of

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cold, according to Joba, meant
that death was no longer fixed in the

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room, perhaps because of the fire
marks on my daughter and the baby,

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we began to understand that death was
no longer concentrated in one place. I

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was still in our house, moving
and waiting nights to return to my daughter

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' s room and my grandson.
Three weeks after going with Jova, night

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activity changed a lot. The book, which used to alert us all the

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time, was now still at night, letting my daughter and her baby rest,

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something we had not had in a
long time. This quietness was enormous.

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We knew things weren' t completely
right. During the day, the

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book still detected the presence of death
at least twice, reminding us that the

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threat remained in our daily lives.
The objects close to the book at first

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only moved little. When this happened
something that we had become accustomed to.

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Over time, these movements became stronger. The objects didn' t just move

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a few inches. Now they would
slide further to the edge of the tables

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and shelves and fall to the ground. We were worried about this. But

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the most alarming thing happened one day
while we were in the kitchen, the

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leaves of the book were shaken violently, telling us that death was near in

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seconds, a knife on the counter
came off to my daughter and stuck into

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the wall, right next to where
she was. The scare was huge and

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my daughter, taking one hand to
her arm, said she felt itchy on

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the mark that Jova had put the
mark on her seemed to be reacting.

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Looking at the knife still shaking on
the wall, we came to the conclusion

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that somehow the mark had given him
a protection that had saved his life at

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that critical moment. The situation in
our house took us back to Jova'

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s door in great despair. The
last visit had given us partial protection,

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but recent events showed that it was
not enough. When we finished telling him

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about the attack with the knife again
raised the possibility of leaving the house.

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My wife, clearly affected by the
dangers we had faced, seemed to consider

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leaving the house. My tone made
it clear that, despite the risks,

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I wanted to stay in the house. Joba explained that death was angry.

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The protection he gave us had given
us a break, but he had also

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irritated her. I wasn' t
used to being challenged, and that'

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s why I wanted to attack how
it came about. We couldn' t

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do anything to make her happy,
because what she wanted was my daughter and

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the baby. All we could do
was put stronger protection in the house.

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It would cost a lot. I
told him without hesitation that we would do

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what was necessary. The next day, with the money I was asking for,

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I saw I came to Jova'
s house without wasting any time.

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He accepted the money and told us
that everything was ready to put additional protection

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in our house. When we arrived
at the house, Jova brought an ancient

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censer full of herbs. He started
going through every room. The smoke from

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the censer went all over the place
filling every corner of the house. As

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we watched, Joba explained that the
ritual had its advantages and its disadvantages death

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could not touch the physical objects,
pointing out how the smoke stuck to everything.

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This meant I couldn' t throw
anything else. The objects would be

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safe from being moved or thrown by
the force that had been bothering them.

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But he also warned us that this
meant that death could not go through doors.

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Once the smoke settled, I'
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I was. If one door was
locked, I couldn' t go from

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one room to another. This meant
that as long as the doors were locked,

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death would be locked inside the house. This knowledge was a double-

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edged weapon. On the one hand, it offered more effective control over the

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movements of death, on the other, it meant that our house would still

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have that presence. When he finished
walking through every room and assured that everything

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was well impregnated with smoke, Joba
said the ritual was over. Then we

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take her back to her house.
The book he had given us before was

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our tool as death could no longer
go through walls or doors. We used

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the book to find out if that
thing was inside any of the rooms.

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When we found death in a room, we closed the door and could sleep

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peacefully, knowing that this thing was
not wandering around the house. In the

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first few nights after the ritual,
the silence was rare, but the calm

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it gave us was good. We
still couldn' t trust each other.

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Every night we went through the book
before we slept. My daughter and her

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baby slept in the same room and
my wife and I took turns watching from

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the vasillo. One night, the
book began to vibrate as it opened,

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the pages moved slowly and the same
whispering filled the room. We knew death

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was active again, but now we
had something to face. We followed the

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noise and sensation that the book gave
to the room. As the door approached

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us, it began to tremble,
indicating that the Presence was in there quickly.

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We closed the door and made sure
he couldn' t get out.

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I was relieved to hear the silence
that followed, but my daughter, still

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scared, said she felt the mark
on her arm burn. We realized that

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death is Mr He was concentrating his
efforts in that room. The fear was

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growing inside me, but I knew
we couldn' t give up I remembered

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what Joba said about the smoke and
the doors. Death could not leave the

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room while the doors were closed,
the dawn brought a breath of respite.

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The activity stopped during the day,
leaving us to rest, my wife and

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I decided to strengthen the locks of
all the doors, making sure that none

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could be opened by accident. The
doors were old and some no longer closed

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well. Strengthening them was necessary one
night, when we looked at the book

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before sleeping, we saw that the
pages were quiet. A feeling of doubt

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invaded us. My wife suggested checking
every room, but I, relying on

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Jova' s protections, preferred to
wait. However, my father’ s

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instinct pushed me to check that my
children were safe. I went into my

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daughter' s room and saw the
baby snuggled to her side. Something in

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the room atmosphere felt weird. I
felt a chill and my skin stood up.

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The book began to vibrate in my
hands, indicating that something was not

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right. I ran into the hallway
and at that moment I heard a strong

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knock on the door of the living
room. The sound of the crackling wood

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and intense cold invaded the house.
Death was trying to break the desperate protections.

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I took the censer that Job had
left and filled it with the remaining

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herbs. I lit the incense and
took it to the room ready to face

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death directly. The smoke started filling
the room and I felt a dark presence

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resisting. The walls seemed to vibrate
under pressure and the objects moved violently,

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but I stood firm, invoking the
protections that Jova had taught us. Finally,

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a strong wind swept through the room
and the darkness seemed to disappear.

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Little by little, I closed the
room door. Now in complete silence,

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the house was filled with the smell
of incense. When I left, I

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met my family waiting outside worried,
but without harm. That night marked the

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end of the hardest battle we had
ever faced. With Jova' s help,

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we had managed to lock up death
in one room of the house.

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The threat was still latent. Now
we knew how to keep her locked up.

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My family and I lived with constant
vigilance, but with the assurance that

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the protections worked. Every day the
house passed by, he made a home

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again, and death was still trapped
in the living room. We knew that

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as long as we kept the doors
closed, we' d be safe.

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Experience had changed us forever, reminding
us that there are forces in this world

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that cannot be easily explained. But
with faith and resistance we managed to protect

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our family from a threat that seemed
invincible. Tale written and adapted by Ramiro contreras