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Camasots. My name is Bastian Betancourt. I' m forty- four years

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old and I' m from Zapopa. I am a Jew and, as

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my last name suggests, I have
French descent. My grandfather Paterno was the

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first of the family to come to
Mexico. This at the end of August

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of nineteen hundred and forty- one, after fleeing from the Germans for almost

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a year. My grandfather lived in
France when the shadow of the Third Reich

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began to spread throughout Europe. My
grandfather was a Jew of faith and heart.

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His life and that of his family
were threatened by hatred and persecution.

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With the German invasion of France in
nineteen hundred and forty. They were forced

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to flee, to leave behind everything
known in search of security that faded away

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with every enemy advance before they managed
to leave Paris. Something happened my grandfather

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or he never told us the details
of that moment. The point is,

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after that thing that he never told
us happened, he was left alone.

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He was the only one in his
family who made it out of Paris.

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My grandfather' s odyssey began with
how little I could carry. He began

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his journey to the South, looking
for a way to avoid the Germans for

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months. He moved only during the
night, hiding among those willing to help

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in isolated farms, in forgotten monasteries, always one step ahead of the danger

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that pursued them. The news that
Mexico was accepting Jewish refugees came to him

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as a beacon of hope. It
was very complicated and it had to take

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almost a year, but finally my
grandfather managed to get to Marseille, where

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a boat would take him across the
Atlantic to freedom. The trip was arduous.

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On landing in Mexico, my grandfather
described how he felt when he stepped

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on land, a land that promised
security and a new or beginning. The

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refuge my grandfather found in Mexico was
not enough to erase the scars that war

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and persecution had left in his being. Experiences in France, flight, the

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constant threat of death marked him deeply. My grandfather' s hardness was nothing

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more than the armor of a man
who had seen too much, a man

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who had learned to expect the worst
to survive. This armor, however,

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did not protect him alone in his
mind was the strength he believed necessary to

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safeguard his family from the cruelties of
the world. The crudest lesson the war

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taught him was that life could be
snatched away in an instant and only those

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prepared to defend themselves, to fight, could have the hope of overcoming adversities.

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That became a strict education for their
children, in which discipline and preparedness

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to face any threat were fundamental.
The la las, the security could only

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be guaranteed through force. My grandfather
was violent with his sons and daughters alike

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That forged a rather harsh character for
all of them. My aunts never got

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married. They' re both high
school principals. As for my uncles some

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joined the military forces, others,
like my father, chose the way of

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the police. My father' s
life as a policeman was marked by his

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tireless dedication and his firm commitment to
justice, values that led him to stand

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out within his profession. Over time, his reputation grew. In nineteen hundred

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and sixty- seven, this recognition
reached a climax when his superior entrusted him

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with a mission of great responsibility to
fill an important position in Lecumberry prison,

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known for harboring some of the most
notorious criminals in the country. However,

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my grandfather had a very bad opinion
about that prison. I was comparing it

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to the concentration camps the Germans had, so when my father agreed to work

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at Lecumberry. They broke relationship forever. Among the chapters of my father'

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s life is one that is never
spoken because it is too strong. In

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August of nineteen hundred and sixty-
eight, several university students arrested by the

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Government arrived in Lecumberry, accused of
instigating protests and planning actions against the State.

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My father, along with others,
was entrusted with the task of interrogating

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these young people as prisoners. Then, when those of October 2 occurred,

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the brutal repression of the lives of
the lost youth, he learned that the

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government had been able to act in
that way because of the information he and

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others had taken from the university students
who questioned in Lecumberry. My father felt

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so much guilt that he resigned and
walked away completely from any work that involved

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carrying a gun. After leaving his
post in Lecumberry, my father studied medicine

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for three years and then specialized as
a forensic doctor, allowing him to work

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in Semefo. It was there that
he met the woman who would become my

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mother, an embalmer whose ability to
treat the deceased with dignity and respect captivated

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him from the beginning. She shared
her vision of forensic medicine, not only

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as a science, but as a
service to the community, providing comfort to

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families at their time of greatest pain, taking care of their loved ones with

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a deep humanity, growing up in
a home where both parents work with the

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dead. He gave a unique perspective
on life, one that moves away drastically

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from what many might consider normal or
everyday. My childhood was marked by this

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unusual reality, in which death,
far from being such a bona fide subject

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or a feared presence, became a
constant component of my education and development.

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Since before he was old enough to
attend primary school, he was already familiar

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with concepts that other children would find
strange or even frightening. Dinners in our

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house were always accompanied by some anecdote
about corpses. This early exposure to death

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taught me to see it not as
the absolute end, but as a natural

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part of existence. One more step
in the interrupted cycle of life. This

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upbringing made me quite insensitive to death, as well as placing me in a

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peculiar position with respect to my schoolmates. In a world where children fear monsters

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under the bed, I didn'
t know fear. The presence of death

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in our home was not limited to
conversations during dinner, sometimes especially during the

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summer, when the or heat intensified
decomposition and made its work even more demanding.

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My parents often came home with an
unpleasant smell. No matter how many

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precautions you take, changing clothes or
using all kinds of products to clean your

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hands and face the smell of subtle
but unmistakable death. He held on to

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them mixing with his sweat and emanating
from his skin. Obviously, the first

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time I had to read that I
threw up instantly, but over the years

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I came to take it as the
most normal thing in the world. I

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am very aware of how my parents
came to pass, even more than an

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hour, showering because if not the
smell of death, they would not get

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rid of the body. When I
turned thirteen, my parents decided that,

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even though my father had no relationship
with my grandfather, that I was not

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part of the problem. So they
got me on a plane and sent me

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to Veracruz for two weeks. I
was very hopeful that for those two weeks

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I could forget about death, but
it didn' t happen, because my

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grandfather, all I was talking about
was all the atrocities he saw in France

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during the German occupation. That'
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matter where I was or who I
was with. For some reason, death

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was always there in front of me, as if he was trying to communicate

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with me, as if death was
trying to tell me something. Upon returning

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from those two weeks on the plane, I was already thinking that upon entering

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the university I would study something related
to death and so it happened. As

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I entered the University, I immersed
myself in the world of forensic medicine and

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pathological anatomy, fields that explore death
not only as a biological fact, but

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also as a mystery to be solved. Throughout my studies, every course,

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every certification, every day I went
deeper into the field that revolved around death.

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I' m a forensic technician,
pathological anatomy technician, qualified in medical

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laboratory technology and certified pathology assistant,
but my education didn' t stop there.

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Inspired by the respect for the deceased
I saw in my mother and in

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her work as embalmer, I also
obtained a license as a beautician. My

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foray into the professional world began with
my parents, who, thanks to their

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years of experience and the ties forged
in the forensic and medical field, helped

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me to get my first job.
However, I could not last in that

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job for as long as I would
have liked. When I got the news

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that my grandfather was sick, I
knew that my place was next to him

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supporting my grandmother at that difficult time. I was aware that my father and

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grandfather had had a distant, complicated
relationship, marked by years of silence and

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misunderstanding, which made it unlikely that
my father would come into this situation.

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Moved by the need to be close
to my grandfather and the desire to give

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him my support, I made the
decision to quit my job and travel to

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Veracruz. For the next seven months
I spent my time and energy taking care

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of my grandfather, assisting my grandmother
in everything necessary. My grandfather had been

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a successful man in his business,
accumulating a considerable fortune throughout his life.

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This meant that during my stay in
Veracruz, there was no need to worry

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about working, which allowed me to
devote myself completely to his care. One

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afternoon, my grandfather just got really
bad and we had to put him in

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the hospital. On the third day
of boarding school, my grandfather seemed to

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be getting better. That night he
asked my grandmother to look for the doctor

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to ask him a question. It
was an excuse to stay alone with me.

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That' s when, with trembling
hands, he gave me a medal.

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It was an object he had seen
hanging from his neck on countless occasions,

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a symbol he had never fully understood
until that moment. The moment he

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put the medal in my hands,
he told me this medal was given to

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me by my rabbi as a child
in France, during the darkest days,

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when the Germans, when the whole
world seemed to have turned against us.

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This medal was my consolation, my
source of strength. He reminded me of

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where it came from and the light
that was in faith and hope. He

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paused by taking a hard breath.
Before we go any further, I want

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you to take her with you,
death. He' s chosen you,

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and I' m worried about that. You will face moments of evil,

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moments when you will need to remember
that God is on your side. This

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medal will give you strength, just
like it did with me. When he

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finished his words, he closed his
eyes and died. To everyone' s

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surprise, my father attended the funeral. My grandmother After a period of mourning

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and reflection, she made a decision
that surprised us all. He wanted to

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move to Oaxaca to his mother'
s hometown, a place that, despite

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never having visited, felt that he
should go and stay there until the day

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of his death. Intrigued by her
decision and moved by the desire to support

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her in this new stage, I
decided to accompany her on her journey.

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It was a decision that would not
only change his life, but also mine.

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When we arrived in Oaxaca, we
found a landscape that looked like it

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had been taken from another time.
One thing I want to clarify about my

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grandmother is that she wasn' t
Jewish. She was Catholic. However,

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I know that either he married my
grandfather, had not gone to church again.

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He never converted to Judaism, but
he did not go to the Catholic

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Church. Already when my grandfather died
and was in that town of Oaxaca,

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he began to go to Mass every
Sunday. After a week of being with

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my grandmother all the time, I
decided to go out and see if I

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could find anything interesting to do.
If I was going to be there for

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an indefinite amount of time, at
least I wanted to do some activity.

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What I found, however, was
something I would never have expected. In

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the heart of the village, between
the houses of Adobe and the paved roads

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stood a building that distended with the
surroundings for its modernity. It was a

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recent construction owned by the Catholic Church, which housed a morgue and a funeral

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home. The presence of this facility
in such a remote place surprised me,

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but even more surprising it was to
discover that they were looking for someone with

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a professional profile like mine, the
priest in charge of the entire building was

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a man of about seventy years.
When I met him and talked about the

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needs of love that and the funeral
home, I realized that all this was

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too much for it to be a
mere coincidence. After discussing it with my

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grandmother, who was sure this was
the destination, I decided to apply for

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the job. The acceptance was immediate, something that in any other context had

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seemed incredibly timely, but that at
that time felt like something more like a

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sign. In fact, at the
time I signed the contract, he gave

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me a little start near my neck, right where I was hanging the amulet

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my grandfather gave me before the place
died. Its facilities, although not private

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in the strictest sense of the word, operated under a somewhat exclusive model.

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The care and services provided had no
cost to the families of the deceased,

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which represented considerable help in times of
deep pain and financial hardship. However,

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access to these services was conditioned.
Only families actively involved in church activities could

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apply for the admission of their loved
ones to the amorgue and then make use

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of the funeral home for wake services. In addition, the offices and procedures

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for funeral services were managed by nuns. This whole thing was really weird for

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me, because I' m Jewish. The scope of these facilities transcended the

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boundaries of the village. People from
anywhere could apply for their services as long

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as they demonstrated that their family was
actively involved in the church. Closer to

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your home. On the outskirts of
town there were three cemeteries. The r

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the first or, but managed by
the municipal capital, served as the public

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cemetery, a place of final rest
for many of the inhabitants of the village

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without distinction. The other two operated
under the administration of the Catholic Church.

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The largest of these church cemeteries was
the final destination of those whose bodies had

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been cared for in the building where
he worked. This place was spacious and

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kept clean all the time. However, it was the other cemetery, the

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smallest one I had ever seen.
The one that caught my attention the most,

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but not in the good sense of
the word. In fact, I

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was anxious about twenty meters by twenty, a tiny plot of land that kept

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more questions than buried bodies. No
one seemed to know who was buried.

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There were no accessible records or plates
identifying the occupants of their graves. In

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addition, this small cemetery remained closed
to the public, secured with a lock

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24 hours a day without a candlestick. This absence of vigilance, combined with

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restricted access, gave him an even
more enigmatic atmosphere as if beyond being a

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mere place of rest, he was
the guardian of some ancient secret that the

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Church, for unknown reasons, preferred
to keep hidden. The Church administered it

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under a lot of hermetism. The
existence of this cemetery and the many unanswered

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questions surrounding it became an obsession.
For me. In my free moments,

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I was contemplating that closed space.
From the first time I noticed that at

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the top of the entrance gate of
the small cemetery, where the name of

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the place is supposed to be,
the only thing there was a metal bat

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keep that in mind. Now,
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it was going to be in complete
calm. My days were 13 hours from

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Monday to Friday on Saturdays. In
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I did not work taking advantage of
this day for rest and to spend time

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with my grandmother. On Sundays he
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days when the priest in charge of
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to the activities of the Church of
the People. My activities were divided between

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the meticulous preparation of the bodies for
their wake and a variety of essential activities

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in the morgue. Sixty percent of
my time devoted to preparing the bodies for

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their wake. It was a job
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respect for the deceased and their families. Every body that came to our facilities

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had its own history and my task
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dignified farewell that reflected the care and
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of my time was spent in the
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Obviously, I wasn' t the
only worker in the place, but I

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was the only one who worked both
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This was because part of my responsibilities
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the handling of bodies, ensuring that
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compliance with health protocols were maintained.
Despite my ample freedom to move and supervise

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within this morgue and funeral complex,
there was a notable exception that from the

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beginning aroused my curiosity. It was
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building, to which only the priest
had access. The most intriguing thing about

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this hallway was not only its restriction
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Cleaning staff who kept the rest of
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to enter to perform even the most
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or collecting fallen papers. If something
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the only one who could rectify it
was the priest. This policy of non

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- intervention on the part of all
but the priest himself was very mysterious and

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for some speculation about what was really
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corridor ran straight for about ten meters
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that were visible. There was nothing, it was just a hallway. Whatever

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was turning around was a mystery because
it was out of sight. It was

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very strange. After more than a
year working in this place, the restricted

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corridor remained a mystery. However,
one day, at a time as ordinary

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as any other, as I passed
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looked at the priest I was just
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that was hidden in sight, carrying
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ten rosaries. The surprise of finally
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great as the curiosity that aroused me
to see the objects that the priest carried

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to him. I am Jewish,
for it is obvious that I am not

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so familiar with the practices carried out
by Catholic priests. However, the little

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I know is that the Bible and
rosaries are used to carry out prayers with

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different motives. Seeing that just gave
me more questions. The building had several

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chapels, so it' s not
like the priest had no other place to

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pray. That day, after finishing
another long 13- hour day, as

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I was leaving just before crossing the
street, my attention was captured by an

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unusual scene. A black van with
an imposing appearance and clearly different from any

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vehicle I had seen in the village, entered the premises and headed towards the

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back of the building, an area
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access to the vehicles responsible for collecting
the biological residues of Amorgue moved by a

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mixture of curiosity and an inexplicable feeling
that I was about to discover something with

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caution. I approached the back of
the building, hiding behind a pole to

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observe without being seen from my hiding
place, I witnessed a moment that will

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remain engraved in my memory. The
men who descended from the van proceeded to

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lower a body during the process.
A careless move caused one of the body

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' s arms to be exposed.
His arm was almost skeletal of a paleness

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so exaggerated that he had never seen
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the arm was marked by veins and
arteries that stood out in a deep,

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disquieting black color. The men introduced
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door intended to take out the garbage. Then they returned to the van and

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walked away with the same discretion they
had arrived with. This incident left me

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with a feeling of bewilderment and with
more questions than the many who already intrigued

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me in the three days that followed
that unexpected and disconcerting sighting in the back

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of the building, The presence and
activities of the priest became the object of

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my attention. Despite keeping my usual
tasks, a part of my mind remained

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alert, almost waiting to see again
some sign that would give me clues about

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the mysterious event I had witnessed Curiously, during this time I did not see

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the priest again near the restricted corridor. However, his presence did not go

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unnoticed in other areas of the building, particularly in the offices. On the

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four or five occasions I saw him, he always carried the same open Bible

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and the ten rosaries. This observation
led me to contemplate several possibilities. The

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persistence of the priest in carrying these
religious objects with him, even at times

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when he did not seem to be
heading for the restricted corridor, suggested a

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constant preparation or expectation, as if
at any time he might need to access

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that place to accomplish something. A
week later, a man came to the

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facility whose clothing was of greater importance
than that of a common priest. Upon

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inquiry, I was informed that this
was the Bishop, which immediately raised my

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level of curiosity and speculation about the
nature of his visit. In addition,

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I discovered that the Bishop had visited
the sonic lur only three times during the

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six years that the facilities had been
operating. The presence of the Bishop in

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our facilities, especially considering the context
of recent events he had witnessed, could

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not be coincidental. The visits of
a figure of such a hierarchy within the

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Catholic Church suggested that something had happened, that something was happening or that something

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was going to happen. The two
months that followed the Bishop' s visit

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passed without incident. However, the
apparent calm was abruptly interrupted by the arrival

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of a visibly altered marriage. That
day, my visit to the offices had

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a simple purpose of reviewing a necessary
file for one of my tasks in the

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morgue. I did not expect to
meet in the midst of a heated discussion

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between that marriage and three of the
nuns, especially because the nuns were very

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serious. I never imagined I'
d see them argue like that. Although

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my intention was not to meddle in
other people' s affairs, it was

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impossible not to perceive the atmosphere of
despair that carried the marriage and by the

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time I was retiring. What I
had understood was that the discussion seemed to

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revolve around the disappearance of your son' s body. I could not hear

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well, but the marriage seemed to
be very sure that the body had been

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moved to our morgue. I could
have ruled out this encounter as another tragic

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case of a family seeking answers on
the whereabouts of a loved one. However,

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just as the door closed behind me, the last echoes of the conversation

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I managed to grasp included the mother
uttering the word exorcism. That word left

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me icy. Honestly. I do
not know the context in which Catholics contemplate

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an exorcism, but at least within
Judaism. That' s a very serious

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thing, so the fact that this
marriage was looking for your son' s

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body and that an exorcism was also
mentioned seemed to suggest that the cause of

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your son' s death was demonic
possession. But as I walked towards the

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morgue and already with the file in
my hand, I wondered what that exorcism

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had to do with our morgue.
As I told you before, they only

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entered bodies if the family requested it
and if the parents were so upset looking

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for their son' s body,
claiming that they had taken him to our

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morgue, because apparently that was a
sign that they had not asked the body

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to be admitted to the place.
Besides, I was in charge of signing

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the death certificates. I was making
sure that the cause of death noted was

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the right one, and I'
m sure I never signed a paper that

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said someone' s cause of death
was for exorcism. So something weird was

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going on with the marriage thing.
Arguing with the nuns. He spent one

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Friday the next day, following my
rough Saturday routine, I left home where

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I lived with my grandmother at six
in the morning to take a walk all

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over the village. It was my
weekly exercise. Like I said on the

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way out of town were the three
cemeteries. Then, as I did,

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the walk along the shore of the
village, evidently passed in front of the

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cemeteries. That Saturday, at the
time of my approach to the small cemetery,

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the one that remained locked twenty-
four hours a day and whose gate

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was guarded by the figure of a
metal bat. I stopped because I saw

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something that was already the drop that
spilled the glass the marriage that was in

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the offices. The day before,
arguing with the nuns, he was leaving

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the cemetery and they were not alone. Next to him was the priest who

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ran the facilities where he worked to
see them together. Leaving that place,

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he made me start putting together all
the pieces of the ro puzzle, suggesting

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a direct connection between the dead son
of the marriage, the corridor to which

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I could only access, the priest, the body they put in the back

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and that cemetery. I decided to
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leading to the municipal head office.
There I approached them I told them that

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I worked in the morgue, where
they had sought out their son the day

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before. I told them I couldn' t help but hear the discussion they

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had with the nuns and wanted to
know what was going on, because maybe

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I could help them. They told
me that, six months ago, their

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son had begun to show signs of
demonic possession, which led them to seek

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help in their local church in Guanajuato. The church, through the bishop of

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the area, had sent an exorcist
to treat the young man, but despite

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his efforts, they failed to save
him and the boy died. They accepted

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the church' s offer to take
care of the expenses of these funeral homes

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in exchange for allowing an autopsy,
without imagining that it would mean losing all

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traces of what had happened to their
son' s body. Their determination to

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discover the truth led them to confront
the bishop responsible for sending the exorcist situation

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that culminated in violence when the bishop
refused to want to give them any kind

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of information. After the husband beat
him a few times, the bishop,

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perhaps in an attempt to appease the
situation or to get rid of the problem,

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sent them to this remote town in
Oaxaca, to the Morgue, where

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I worked. After a long and
frustrating discussion with the nuns, they were

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finally received by the priest, who
confirmed the practice of receiving bodies from those

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who did not survive the exorcisms,
but insisted that his son' s body

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had not arrived there. The visit
to the small cemetery was the final test

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offered by the priest, showing them
that, although indeed, bodies of failed

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exorcisms were buried there. His son' s name was not on any of

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the tombs. After hearing their story, I offered them my help to find

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what they were looking for so much. I assured them that, contrary to

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the priest' s statement, the
body of his son had indeed arrived at

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our morgue and that he believed he
knew exactly where we could find him.

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However, aware of the restrictions and
secrets surrounding the place, he knew that

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any attempt at access would have to
be carefully planned. I asked them to

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go to sleep at their hotel in
the municipal capital, but to return the

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following day in the afternoon, which
was Sunday. I explained to them that

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on Sundays the only person present in
the building was the Security Guard who looked

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after the night and morning, which
I knew well we were friends, so

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with the right excuse, it would
allow us to enter without raising suspicions the

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marriage. He accepted reggas to leave
the village in the afternoon of the following

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day, as the marriage got on
the bus. I went back to the

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house on Sunday night. My plan
came in It was simple. I would

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arrive with the marriage to the building
shortly after midnight and using a credible excuse,

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convince the Security Guard to allow us
access. What I told my friend

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was that the marriage had had a
funeral service last week and that they had

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forgotten to pick up their reading credentials, so I would take them to the

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offices to pick them up and in
less than twenty minutes we would be gone

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it worked. He let us in
next to the marriage. We headed for

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the forbidden corridor, the one that
had remained out of reach of me and

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of all, except the priest.
We walked the ten meters until we reached

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the turn, where the corridor turned
to the left. There we find a

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door marked by a metal bat identical
to the one that adorned the entrance of

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the small cemetery. That coincidence only
intensified the feeling that we were about to

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discover something important. By opening the
door, what we saw inside challenged any

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expectation. A room dominated by a
huge altar at the top of which lay

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a possibly obsidian black stone figure,
with an indigenous representation of a half-

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human entity, half- bat.
The most disturbing thing was the hieroglyphics covering

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every inch of the walls, floor
and ceiling, an unknown and ancient writing.

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Most likely I had never seen anything
like it and there in the middle

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of the room, on a stone
plate, lay the body I had witnessed,

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being secretly introduced days ago, pale
with veins and arteries marked in a

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deep and disturbing black. The recognition
of the body by the marriage was instantaneous

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and tearing. There was no doubt
that the body belonged to his son.

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Confirmation left all three of us in
a state of shock. My mind was

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still struggling to assimilate the hieroglyphs that
covered every surface of the secret room.

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When something happened that challenged all logic
and understanding, as the marriage approached the

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body of her son, the mother
stretched her hand toward the forehead of the

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corpse, but at that time the
body opened her eyes and stared at her.

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Then the corpse stretched out his arm
and grabbed the mother' s hand

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with supernatural force, preventing him from
retreating. Things got even worse When the

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corpse spoke, said a word Kamazots, the husband and I, pulling with

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all our strength, finally managed to
free the woman from the body' s

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grip and without looking back, we
ran at full speed Out of that cursed

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room and out of the building l
s s s. S l. S

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R. On the street, the
guard could do nothing but get separated in

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confusion, watching us drift away at
full speed. My desperate flight along with

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the marriage became a tragedy in a
matter of seconds. As we ran down

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the street trying to put as much
distance as possible between us and the horror

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we had just witnessed out of nowhere, a car ran over the woman with

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a force that was evident that her
husband had killed her. She ran to

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her horrified and as we could,
we called an ambulance, hoping that she

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could survive that accident, But it
was clear that the woman had already died

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the husband was only stuck near his
wife' s body crying inconsolably. The

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security guard came a little closer to
the crash site and I was just looking

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away at the situation, constantly looking
at the facilities and everywhere in case that

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demonic corpse didn' t follow.
I just left the place before the authorities

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arrived. I went to my grandmother' s with the intention of not returning

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to that place. I didn'
t even file a formal waiver. I

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just stopped attending, avoiding calls to
ask myself what had happened. I have

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no explanation for what happened. I
have no idea what the word Kama sots

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means. I have no idea of
any story written and adapted by Ramiro contreras