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What I brought into the world.
I was born on the day of the

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Solar Eclipse of nine hundred and ninety- one. The truth is, I

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haven' t had the courage to
look exactly if this has anything to do

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with everything that happened to me.
But from what I' ll report later,

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I think it' s important to
mention it right now. To tell

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you the truth, all my life
I could say that in my childhood I

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never felt there was anything weird about
me or even that my life was different,

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but I guess that' s something
that happens when you don' t

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know anything else. As soon as
I grew up and had a greater sense

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of the world, I realized that
what was happening in my childhood could not

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be completely normal, since my parents
used to do things that no other father

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would do. For example, there
was a kind of ritual that we did

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almost every Sunday where we sat at
the dining table in the living room together

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with my brothers, and we all
had to be totally quiet. Suddenly,

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my father would turn off all the
lights in the house and block any light

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coming from outside, leaving the house
in total darkness that would not let you

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see your hand in front of your
face. And not only that, but

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I didn' t even give you
a chance for your eyes to get used

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to the darkness. Because, after
closing all the windows and curtains, he

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proceeded to light a red candle.
I have always thought I had something special,

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because, while the fire as such
gives an orange glow, this candle

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shone too red a fire. It
was almost as if it were a lamp

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with some red filter, although you
could clearly see that it was fire.

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I remember well that Dad kept it
on for about a minute and then they

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turned it off. What happened next
was a little weirder. My mother stood

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beside the candle and snapped her fingers
every five minutes and just as she snapped

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her fingers, the candle lit almost
like magic. And not only that,

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but when my mother closed her fist, the candle went out without anyone touching

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it. Our only duty during all
that time that kind of ritual lasted was

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to observe. We were not allowed, under any circumstances, to look the

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other way than the candle, no
matter what we heard or believed to see

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from the corner of the eye.
In the brief moments when there was light

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in the kitchen after a while,
very strange things began to happen. We

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could hear how something turned the armchairs
in the room, how things staggered and,

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if that were not enough, we
also came to feel as if something

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was standing behind us. He had
a very heavy breath, an iced breath

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that we could feel bumping into us
and sometimes caressing our faces with hands that

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seemed to be full of wounds already
healed. On top of that, I

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had some long nails that seemed to
be able to cut you off if I

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buried them more. Throughout this time
span, we all felt very uncomfortable,

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although I don' t really remember
feeling much fear about it. I was

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just uncomfortable with the simple fact that
whatever it was, whatever it was.

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That was touching me. But,
as I said before, that' s

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how I' d been raised basically
since I remembered. For me that was

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normal, and I assumed that everyone
in their homes was doing it and even

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though I didn' t understand the
reason why we should do it. Without

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just like that it was how I
thought the world worked and I couldn'

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t change it. Besides, it
wasn' t something particularly scary or annoying.

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It only happened once a week and
nothing ever happened to us. That

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wasn' t the only thing my
family was different about. Rather, we

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were totally different in all respects.
We had no friends. We could only

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live with our brothers. I was
the middle sister. I have another brother

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named Alan, who is three years
older than me and my next sister,

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Lily is just one year younger than
me. As we grew up we had

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many luxuries and comforts. Basically we
had all the toys and video games we

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wanted and they were delivered to us
almost the instant we asked for them,

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but the only rule was that we
shouldn' t have conversation with anyone outside.

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We didn' t go to school
either Mom taught us at home and

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told us that all children were taught
that way. But we all knew that

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was not true. Because of the
TV shows we were watching and about our

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upbringing, we were rarely beaten by
one of my parents. I don'

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t know if his philosophy was zero
blows or if we just behaved well,

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even though the truth I don'
t think it is. The latter,

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because there were times when, as
children, we challenged the limits that our

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parents set and this caused us to
be given punishments that, in my opinion,

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were much worse than a blow,
depending on the severity of your mischief.

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It was the price you would have
to pay, although sometimes it was

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a simple fight between brothers or some
blow, some of these were punished only

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with the punishment of video games or
just go to bed without dinner. There

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were two destinies, and it'
s just that, seriously, you went

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too far, for example, if
you spoke badly to mom or dad or

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if you thought of trying to contact
the outside world for any reason. And

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for either of these there were only
two destinies. Generally speaking in a bad

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way to your mother or father sent
you to the mirror closet, as his

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name suggests. It was a closet
that my parents had conditioned with many mirrors

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of different shapes and sizes on each
of the walls, also on the door

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and even on the ceiling, with
only one spotlight that they had painted of

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violet color which gave a kind of
ultraviolet light effect to the whole thing.

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The focus could only be turned on
with a switch that was outside. They

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' d put you in there and
lock you up. First it was all

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dark and believe me when I told
them that that was the best part of

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all that punishment, because a few
minutes later, that light lit up and

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all you could see was yourself,
regardless of the direction you turned. Many

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will think that this is not exactly
something to be terrified of, although when

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you spent the minutes in the mirrors
you didn' t see exactly your face,

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of course it was you, but
in some you looked different. I

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don' t mean these mirrors where
you look deformed or with a slightly swollen

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face. In some you looked like
you had an accident, like your face

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was burned or full of blisters.
Sometimes you saw yourself with the flesh slowly

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pouring out of your face. You
were there as long as your parents decided

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you' d had enough penance.
And even though all this was somewhat traumatizing,

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the truth is that you could get
rid of it for at least a

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moment, because if you closed your
eyes very hard and resisted opening them,

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you could rest and imagine, even
for a few seconds, that you weren

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' t there. But the second
punishment was that none of my brothers ever

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wanted to go, because there was
no way to escape the horror that gave

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you to be in that place.
In one of the corners of our large

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courtyard, my father had built a
sort of bunker He basically dug down a

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hole big enough to fit more or
less two lying adults. Then he reinforced

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it with boards so that it would
not collapse and installed a kind of door

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made of steel, which was perfectly
hidden with some rocks. Sometimes they would

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get us there practically all day.
To my luck, I was only there

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once. The reason they put me
in there was because of the simple fact

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that this is it. I was
playing video games when I was twelve and

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someone tried to contact me on the
Internet and I responded. It was a

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most innocent talk about the game,
but my parents were not at all happy

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with what I had been doing.
It was the first time I went into

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that place. My brothers had been
brought in more times, and the two

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of them were getting out so grumpy
and hurt that they refused to talk about

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it at all costs. I remember
being put in there and locked the door.

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Everything was almost completely dark, except
for some other leak of the sun

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' s rays entering the place.
At first I thought it was no big

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deal, as it was like being
in a big box and at least there

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were no mirrors showing the horrible ways
you could die. I figured I just

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had to wait a minute until they
decided it was time to get out.

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The place was narrow, but I
could stretch my legs so they wouldn'

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t fall asleep. I think it
was, like, 20 minutes before I

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started feeling a little numb in my
back. For a moment I came to

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think that that was the punishment itself
and I even thought my brothers were exaggerating

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until I heard the sound. It
was first like a little laugh, which

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seemed to come from the corner of
that place where there was no part of

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my body. For a moment I
thought that it was some outside sound and

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that I should not worry in the
least, although I quickly realized that it

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was not and that that sound did
come from the same place I was.

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At first I had no idea what
it might be. I even thought it

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might be a mouse. I remember
I even knocked a little bit on the

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steel door that was above me to
tell my dad that there was a mouse

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there, but I didn' t
have any answer, so I just sat

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there waiting for my luck, it
was such that it wasn' t about

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any mouse, as I' ve
always panicked them a lot. As the

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minutes passed, I realized that that
sound wasn' t from a mouse.

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It sounded like a laugh and every
time you could tell that it was the

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laughter of a little boy, which, to my misfortune, I checked when

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about five minutes after this idea crossed
my mind I saw something glowing at the

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bottom of that bunker were two gray
eyes. At the same time I felt

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how with his small hands he began
to subdue my ankles. They felt very

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strident and cold, so cold that
I could swear they were dead. At

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that moment I got so scared that
I took my legs and tried to hit

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the other end of the bunker as
much as possible. My breathing was agitated

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and I knew I had no chance
of getting out. I was only petrified

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by looking at that little one.
He laughed again and then again. She

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asked me if I had been a
bad girl. I didn' t know

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what to answer. I just kept
quiet. Still. He kept talking as

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if I had answered him and told
me that no father liked to have bad

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children. He also told me that
he was so bad one day that his

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parents locked him up and never let
him out again. He told me that

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from that he knew how to be
good, although he was also very hungry

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and followed. He crawled to where
I was and I felt clearly how he

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bit my cheek so hard that I
couldn' t help but scream a scream

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of horror almost immediately. I heard
my father open the hatch and get me

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out of that place. The little
one had disappeared, but his teeth were

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already marked on my cheekbone, which
was beginning with blood. With regard to

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this punishment and also to what was
meant by the mirror cabinet, my parents

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were never too specific. I mean, we weren' t sure how it

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worked or why it happened. Those
things. It was just our normality.

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That' s how the laws of
the world were, though all this changed

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for me. When I was fifteen, I had an opening to the real

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world, of which I had not
been allowed to participate. I never started

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talking to some people, who,
after hearing everything I was living in my

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home, told me that it was
clearly not normal. One of them even

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talked about being in a kind of
cult, although to tell the truth,

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I wasn' t sure about this. Last, I' ve never seen

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more people hanging around the house.
We didn' t have any kind of

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leader and we didn' t go
to any cult either. Of course I

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knew nothing about the Bible, God, or even the Devil. That whole

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thing was very new to me at
the time I met him when I was

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fifteen, but I still remember that
I already had this mentality that maybe my

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parents could be planning something very shady
for us. On one occasion around 3

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a m, I came down from
my room for some water and heard my

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father talking on the phone from his
office. I was saying that I was

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already of age to meet the one
who would be my husband. This scared

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the shit out of me. I
didn' t know who I could deal

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with and I had been on the
Internet long enough to know that I still

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had a lot of things I wanted
to live before I got married I remember

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that after telling my brothers, I
started drawing up a plan to run away

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with them. At first, none
of them were convinced, but we were

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all teenagers and clearly we had already
been realizing that everything our parents had told

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us was not exactly the truth.
So it didn' t take much insistence

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for them to finally decide to join
me It had been so long since our

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captivity that none of our parents were
with the guard so high and they didn

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' t think we were able to
escape. So one day around two o

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' clock in the morning, we
picked up a few belongings, took money,

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and ran out the front door.
They didn' t even wake up

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and I don' t know if
they looked for us, but we hid

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for many months for fear of being
located by them. I' d like

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to say that there was a great
escape, but the truth is it was

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very simple. I' ve always
thought that my parents didn' t expect

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it at any time, but I
think it was about five months before the

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money started to run out and we
got into the job hunt. At first

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it was very difficult. We didn' t have documents, we didn'

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t even know what our parents were
called. Basically, for the state,

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we didn' t exist. We
had to do a long process to register.

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They even let us choose our names
and so we became normal people among

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others and very soon everyone began to
have their own personality and find their own

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way. You could even say that
the more we grew, the more we

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realized that we wanted to make our
own lives and little by little we stopped

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living together and each one went away
by his side. We' re still

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in touch. We weren' t
in bad terms or anything like that,

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only that we wanted our own independence. We had already learned enough from the

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world to be able to follow our
way by ourselves. By the time I

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lived alone and had good stability,
I was about twenty- seven years old

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and had been entering and leaving different
relationships because of our education. None of

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us would be considered to be someone
with good mental health, but we were

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all striving to improve. I really
wanted to find a good person to live

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the rest of my days together with
him, just as cinema and television had

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painted me, but I had not
found the right one. Usually, they

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were not looking for something serious or
long- term, and I was,

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so for a long time I was
single, although at the beginning of the

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two thousand eighteen I met the one
who at that time seemed the ideal man

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was quite attractive and very charming.
I met him in a very romantic way,

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or at least that seemed to me, as at that time I was

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working as a barista in a cafe
and he arrived. After the specifications of

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his coffee, he told me that, if I allowed him to tell me

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that those earrings were very cute,
I smiled shyly, and he replied that

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maybe one day we could go somewhere, maybe for a coffee somewhere where I

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didn' t have to prepare it. I said yes, we exchanged phone

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numbers and then. He left,
although only two minutes later he sent me

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a message to set the date day
we had been talking about moments ago.

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From the first moment I went out
with him, I realized it was all

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I was looking for. He seemed
very interested in me, he was kind,

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he was very funny and he was
a gentleman and seriously, he seemed

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to like me. I think we
spent about seven months of boyfriends when he

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asked me about a future together and
soon afterwards I moved into his apartment along

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with him and praculte. That'
s when I realized it came from a

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pretty rich family. Of course,
he had told me at some point that

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he was working in his family business, but he had no idea it was

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going to happen to them, too. I even remember a couple of months

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later he suggested I quit my barista
job at the cafe. For obvious reasons,

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I didn' t want to do
it, as it gave me a

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little certainty to know that I was
making my own money and I could leave.

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I' ve always thought it'
s kind of a sequel my parents

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left me, but anyway, our
life seemed to be very good. Two

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months after we moved in together,
she invited me to a family party to

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formally introduce myself to her parents.
He told me that they were very interested

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in meeting me, so I wanted
to make a very good first impression,

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although when I got there I realized
it was more than just a little family

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reunion. His whole family was present, not only his parents, as I

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thought, for I assumed that,
in addition to his parents, his brothers

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would be very much there. But
instead I ran into his grandparents, uncles,

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and even cousins, although the weirdest
thing was that they didn' t

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seem to be celebrating anything in particular. Rather it seemed that they had gone

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exclusively to Know Me I tried to
like them all, greeting them with kindness,

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and they answered me. They seemed
pretty normal and friendly, although the

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first strange thing happened there while we
were sitting. My boyfriend told them that

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I was born on the day of
the eclipse and then he gestured at me

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with his eyes to corroborate that information. I nodded and said yes and that,

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in fact, my mother had told
me that just the moment everything had

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gone dark was when I opened my
eyes, although this could only be like

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a random fact that would be lost
in the middle of the conversation. The

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truth is, it wasn' t
like that. In fact, it was

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quite the opposite. They seemed too
excited about the fact that I was born

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during an eclipse and wanted more details
about it, details that I couldn'

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t give them because I didn'
t even remember that moment of my life.

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But they kept talking about it,
saying things like my health should be

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very good. I even remember my
boyfriend' s grandfather saying something like my

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birth had managed to make the sun
hide. I just threw an uncomfortable laugh

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waiting for us to change the subject
very soon, but it wasn' t.

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They were talking about it for about
half an hour. Even at some

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point I almost felt like some kind
of celebrity among them, and that made

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me feel pretty uncomfortable, although I
didn' t have the courage to ask

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them to change the subject, so
I just held it until they stopped.

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And after that, it seemed that
it was the only data they wanted to

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know about me, since they no
longer asked me more things like my tastes

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or even about my family, although
I thanked this, as I did not

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like to talk about them. Every
time I remember this moment, I think

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that this whole situation was very rare
and without a doubt, it was a

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clear warning signal. I also remember
well that, as we returned home,

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my boyfriend told me that everyone had
been totally delighted with me and that I

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was practically already part of the family
at the time I was so flattered that

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I even overlooked how strange that situation
had been, as I thought that there

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were many women that her boyfriend'
s family would not accept and that everyone

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would have received me. It was
also a very lucky act for me to

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ruin it with my irrational thoughts.
So I decided not to take any of

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that into account anymore. But even
though I thought they' d stop,

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things got even weirder. After about
three months of that meal, I began

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to notice that my boyfriend had some
strange behaviors. I hadn' t noticed

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this before, as I was usually
a person who had a very heavy sleep

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and since about eleven o' clock
the night I was going to sleep.

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I wasn' t waking up until
the next day, but for some reason

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I don' t know, I
started having very strong nightmares that forced me

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to wake up in the morning around
three, so I realized that my boyfriend

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had weird behaviors. The first time
I woke up and didn' t find

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him in bed, I went out
to look for him and found him in

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the living room watching TV, but
I was watching her in sheer static,

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staring at her. I asked him
what he was doing. He seemed to

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come out of some sort of trance
and turned to see me a little alarmed,

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as if I didn' t think
I was going to wake up.

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After examining the whole situation and realizing
that I really had no idea what was

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going on, he smiled at me
with that lovely smile he had and told

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me he was there because he wanted
to go to the bathroom with me.

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That became very strange to me,
as the bathroom was on the top and

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I let him know. He smiled
again and told me that the TV was

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on and that' s why he
had come down to pay for it.

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Honestly, at that time, that
was enough explanation for me and I didn

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' t want to dig into the
subject anymore. We both went back to

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sleep. But as the other nights
passed by and I kept waking up,

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I noticed that he was no longer
there and whenever he looked at me,

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I was doing the same thing,
either watching television statically or tuning the radio

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to sound just static. I didn' t understand it and whenever I asked

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him about it, he would change
the subject or tell me it was very

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relaxing, although it wasn' t
something he had told me before while we

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were getting to know each other and
we had talked about it, but this

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was a completely new habit in him
that I didn' t understand why he

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had kept it from me all that
time, since I didn' t see

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anything wrong with him, even though
I tried to ignore this habit thinking that

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maybe it was something that embarrassed him. Things started to get worse. He

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began to have episodes of sleepwalking very
often, because when my nightmares woke me

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up and opened my eyes, I
found him standing at the foot of the

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bed, right next to me,
staring at me in the darkness of the

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room with an ear smile or I
was clearly asleep, as seconds later I

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would walk straight to the bed and
lay back asleep almost instantly. And even

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though this was pretty bad, then
he started doing other things. I was

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scratching the walls until I practically ran
out of nails and bled my fingers,

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and even on one occasion I didn' t find it anywhere and when I

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left the apartment, I realized that
I was ending up in the communal courtyard.

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Almost immediately I approached to try to
direct him back to the room.

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I remember when I touched his shoulder, he turned around, his eyes were

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closed, but he still kept that
smile of ear to Ereja, which so

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characterized his sleepwalking. And before I
could say anything he spoke and said this

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is where the bad kids will go. At that time I turned around to

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see and the hole was almost as
deep and as big as the bunker my

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father had built in our childhood.
And not only that. I can almost

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swear it wasn' t his voice, but my father' s, who

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had a long time not to have
seen. It gave me so much chill

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that I almost immediately receded. At
that moment, he reacted, looked disoriented

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in all directions and then looked at
me. He asked me what was going

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on. I didn' t know
what to say. Of course, I

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had already told him a lot about
my childhood, including that horrible bunker.

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At the time, I just told
him I' d been digging. I

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didn' t want to make a
big fuss about this, as I was

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perfectly aware that sleepwalkers are not responsible
for the actions they do while in that

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state, so I just told her
to go to sleep. He nodded and

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entered my house the more I stared
at that hole. Almost instinctively I started

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covering it up again, trying to
forget what had happened. It was as

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if my subconscious could not tolerate the
idea of having a similar bunker in the

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place I now called home. The
next morning, the landlady even caught our

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attention for what we had done.
I explained to her about my boyfriend'

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s sleepwalking and she seemed to understand. We only had to pay a small

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fine to repair the lawn in that
area and after that we sought professional help.

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But the only thing that happened was
that all of this was irritability.

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It seemed that all of these things
that he was sleeping began to put a

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bill on his physical and mental health. He always looked tired and with big

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shiners. Not being able to have
exactly all the energy he once possessed,

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he quickly became, something that was
very easily irritated, because the pills he

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took for sleepwalking caused him a lot
of sensitivity to noise and the light seemed

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to be altered to the slightest provocation. At first it was a cry here

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and there. Then he began to
break whatever was in his hands bowls and

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at one point, he was about
to hit me. He didn' t,

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but when I tried to tell him
he wasn' t the only one

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who had bad days or problems.
He threw a strong punch at the wall

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right next to me, I even
felt the air very close to my face.

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He apologized almost immediately. He said
it wouldn' t happen again and

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that I had too much of my
grocer, although at the time I was

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sure of one thing I didn'
t want to be in a relationship like

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that. I remember back then I
turned around and started picking up all my

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stuff. Throughout this time, he
kept blaming himself and making sure that if

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he forgave him, he wouldn'
t happen again and that he swore to

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me by his life, that I
would never feel in danger with him again.

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He promised to do whatever it was, but he couldn' t leave

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it at the time, but my
mind was too cloudy and I didn'

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t want to make such a hasty
decision. I finished picking up a few

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belongings and went to my brother'
s house, which at that time was

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also already living with his partner.
I told them both what had happened and

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they both agreed that I had made
the best decision. When I got out

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of there, they also told me
I could stay there. As long as

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I needed while I was looking for
a new place to stay. I was

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there three days, completely ignoring my
boyfriend' s calls, until on one

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occasion, while my brother was not
in the house and his partner was working

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in his room, they knocked on
the door and when I went to open,

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I realized that it was my boyfriend' s mother greeted me and asked

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me if it could happen almost immediately. I tried to explain to her that

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she wasn' t really interested in
what she had to tell me and that

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she didn' t want to go
back to her son. But instead of

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answering what I was telling her,
she looked at me and told me that

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I was pregnant. This left me
totally speechless. I was prepared to say

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a lot of arguments not to go
back to her son and all of a

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sudden all that had been overshadowed by
the simple fact that that woman told me

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that I was pregnant and as soon
as I got out of shock, I

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just refused with my head telling her
that it was not true to what she

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touched her nose with her index finger
and told me that she had a good

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smell and that she was completely sure
of what she was telling me. It

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was only a week before my period
came, so that news came as a

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surprise to me. In fact,
I didn' t believe him at the

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beginning, but at the time I
had already lowered my guard enough to show

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me more cooperative what she had to
tell me. So we both sat in

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the living room and she explained to
me that her son had never behaved that

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way. He told me that he
had already told him exactly how things had

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happened and he also swore to me
that she had certainly not raised him to

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behave that way and that under no
circumstances would she support such behaviors. He

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also told me that he was looking
for another kind of treatments for his sleepwalking

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and that he would definitely leave the
pills so as not to take any more

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risk, to become that irritable ever
again, if I decided to give him

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a second chance, although she fully
understood that I no longer wanted to go

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back to him after what I had
done, as I was aware that it

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was a totally reprehensible act. But
he was also someone who believed in second

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chances, if the person was really
sorry, but at the end of the

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day, it was my decision and
I had all his support at the time.

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She placed her hand on my belly
and told me much more now that

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both families joined together in a precious
gift from the universe and that for that

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simple fact, I would always have
the support of her whole family concerning money

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and also if I needed any kind
of thing, since, as grandparents,

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they wanted to be part of the
life of that baby that was brewing in

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my belly. And even if I
decided not to return to his son,

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I could not forget that the father
had certain legal and also moral rights over

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him. I don' t know
why, but I remember when he said

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morals something inside of me shuddered.
It was almost like I was some kind

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of threat, but in such a
kind tone that I thought I was going

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crazy. I remember that at that
moment, not knowing what to say,

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I just smiled and nodded, although
inside of me I thought that even if

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what that woman said about my pregnancy
was true, the reality was that I

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wasn' t entirely convinced of myself
is that I wanted to have it clear

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that this was just a thought,
but almost as if she could read my

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mind immediately her smile was erased and
her look now reflected a little bit of

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anger, although seconds later she smiled
again and told me that if at some

415
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:54.400
point I felt that this responsibility was
too great for me, I could always

416
00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:59.840
consider that she would keep it,
as I had a lot of love to

417
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:04.000
give to that little creature. All
this left me too uneasy, as it

418
00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:08.599
was almost as if she had answered
my thought. But I wanted to seriously

419
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:14.360
believe that it was just a coincidence, so I told him I was going

420
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:19.199
to think about it and that I
had things to do. Although I was

421
00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:23.000
very nervous about all that conversation,
I decided to check if what he had

422
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:29.480
told me was true. I ran
to the pharmacy and bought a pregnancy test,

423
00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:34.639
which came out positive. At that
time I really thought I wouldn'

424
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:37.199
t have it. The idea of
being a mother had never crossed my head

425
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:44.280
and now that it felt so real, I felt terrified. I told my

426
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:47.079
brother and he told me it was
my decision and he would lean on what

427
00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:52.760
I said, so I told him
I would think about it and in the

428
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:57.960
morning I would have a decision,
although I don' t know how to

429
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:00.079
explain this. During the night I
had a very strange stil dream in which

430
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:06.320
I tried to interrupt my pregnancy and
that ended with lethal consequences for me.

431
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:12.039
When I woke up, I was
so scared. The whole idea of interrupting

432
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:17.760
pregnancy caused me a lot of fear
and I decided that the best option would

433
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.199
be to have it after all,
already thinking about it with the clarity of

434
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.400
the morning, I thought it couldn' t be that bad. Almost at

435
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:30.159
the same time I began to think
that, given the new circumstances, perhaps

436
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:35.360
my boyfriend did deserve a second chance. So, after a brief phone call,

437
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:39.039
we stayed at a coffee shop to
talk about what we would do about

438
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:45.800
ourselves and the baby on the way. He was, of course, very

439
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:49.960
happy. I think I' ve
never seen anyone as happy with a baby

440
00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:52.599
as I was. He told me
he would do everything to make that baby

441
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:58.719
as big as he deserved to be
and after he swore to me to look

442
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:04.320
for any other sleepwalking treatments that weren' t pills. He agreed to come

443
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.840
back to him as a sort of
trial period to see if our relationship could

444
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:14.000
work, so that, in that
way, our baby could grow up with

445
00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:19.519
both parents. Everything was going pretty
well at first. I mean, if

446
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:22.599
he was already an attentive and gentlemanly
man before our fight, now he was

447
00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:29.119
very determined to try to make me
happy and make me feel very good as

448
00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:32.360
long as he was near me,
even when he wasn' t with me.

449
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:38.559
I mean, he was always texting
me, reminding me how important I

450
00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:43.199
was to his life along with that
baby and, as he had promised,

451
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:47.840
he kept his word looking for hypnosis
sessions to try to lessen his sleepwalking episodes.

452
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.440
But, unfortunately, while all this
was happening, the covid epidemic arrived

453
00:37:54.639 --> 00:38:00.199
in Mexico and everything not indispensable was
closed in a very short time, so

454
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:05.239
the hypnosis sessions with the therapist were
cancelled at the beginning of the pandemic.

455
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:10.800
Although he seemed to be a completely
new man, he sometimes saw him get

456
00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:15.039
up, but he just sat on
the bed and a couple of minutes later

457
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:21.599
went back to bed. I hadn' t seen a better one like that,

458
00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:25.400
not even with the pills they had
previously prescribed. Everything seemed to be

459
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.000
fine, until cases of infection and
deaths from the pandemic began to rise to

460
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:37.760
an alarming extent. And that'
s when both he and his mother made

461
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:44.360
me some kind of intervention begging me
to quit my job as a barista.

462
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.920
I was told that the risk was
very high and that it was not worth

463
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:52.840
it and that I should worry not
only about myself, but also about the

464
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.800
Baby. It should be noted that
this was the first time that both made

465
00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:02.360
me feel very ugly. They wanted
to say that I overreacted, because even

466
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:08.400
at that time I also came to
think about it, but from what happened

467
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:13.599
later, I consider that my subconscious
was warning me that something was not right.

468
00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:17.440
And it is that, while they
were trying at all costs to convince

469
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:22.159
me that I should leave my job
and stay home so that I would not

470
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:28.239
take any risk of infecting this future
Baby, I felt that there were times

471
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:32.000
when none of them were really worried
about me, but exclusively about the Baby.

472
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.519
I don' t know anything in
his words made me feel like I

473
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:44.039
was just a simple incubator that had
the most valuable in it for them,

474
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:49.119
although, as I said before,
at that time I thought maybe I was

475
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:53.840
exaggerating myself, so I decided not
to give it too much importance. After

476
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:59.320
considering the pros and cons of what
they were telling me, I decided that

477
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:04.079
it would be best to accept what
they were proposing to me, because,

478
00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:08.400
to a certain extent, they were
right and that it was not worth risking

479
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:13.760
a deadly illness for a job where
you didn' t earn so well that

480
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:17.199
without mentioning that, because of my
pregnancy status, I was one of the

481
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:22.199
people who was most at risk.
So I accepted and decided to quit my

482
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:29.559
job and I seriously think that was
the first big mistake I made. She

483
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:34.239
was two months pregnant. When my
body turned against me, I began to

484
00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:38.679
throw up basically everything I put into
my mouth that wasn' t liquid to

485
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:43.840
eat solid. It had become a
total torture to me, and it'

486
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:47.519
s just that any kind of solid
food barely reached my stomach. It felt

487
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:52.679
like I was stuck a thousand needles
inside and had to leave immediately. This

488
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:58.840
billed my health too fast, so
much so I had to be taken to

489
00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:04.400
the doctor emergency. My own body
was already going into shock for not receiving

490
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.280
any kind of nutrient. They gave
me vitamins, but they had to put

491
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:15.400
me in a private clinic for a
couple of days, although both my mother

492
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:19.719
- in- law and my husband
were too determined that I should return home

493
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:23.480
as soon as possible, as I
was afraid that something might affect the baby

494
00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:30.039
' s development. Even my mother- in- law was overemphasizing that that

495
00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:36.000
doctor was prescribing me too many medicines
and that so much medication could hurt the

496
00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:39.360
baby a lot. After that,
the doctor sent for other tests just to

497
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:46.480
make sure I was okay. And
I was finally discharged. I was starving,

498
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:52.599
but simply remembering how my stomach felt
after eating any food made me not

499
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:59.599
want to consume anything. And the
next morning, after I got discharged,

500
00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:02.480
already in my house, my mother- in- law knocked on the door

501
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:07.800
very early. I opened him up
and she came in with a container that

502
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:13.239
contained something she couldn' t see
for a moment. I remember feeling a

503
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:17.639
little anger, as she was perfectly
aware of my situation and that she couldn

504
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:24.239
' t eat food and still was
bringing me more things. I remember at

505
00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:30.400
that moment she went straight into the
kitchen and opened the container. I was

506
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:36.800
after her and what I saw at
first made me sick. With both hands

507
00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:40.239
he pulled out a rescrudo liver that
was still draining blood and put it on

508
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:45.400
a plate. I asked her why
she brought that and she told me it

509
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.199
was a source of pure protein for
the baby. At first I refused,

510
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:53.760
as if I could not eat the
food I liked without feeling much pain.

511
00:42:54.639 --> 00:43:00.400
Of course, I would not eat
beef liver, which I had never heard

512
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:04.800
of, just to feel the same
pain I felt whenever I ingested anything.

513
00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:08.320
I didn' t care how to
plan to prepare it. I wasn'

514
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:13.400
t going to eat a bite,
although what he said later made me sicker.

515
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.880
She told me that to get all
the vitamins and nutrients from that liver,

516
00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:23.719
I had to eat it completely raw. I almost immediately replied that this

517
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:30.159
was not going to happen, although
she insisted. He put it on a

518
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:34.960
plate and then squeezed lemon, telling
me that it would improve the taste a

519
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:40.239
little, but I kept denying myself. It should be noted that during all

520
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.400
this conversation I still found myself,
although close to her, a little removed

521
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:51.280
from the kitchen, so that no
smell came to me and I could only

522
00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:58.400
see how unpleasant that raw liver looked
on my table. This whole situation was

523
00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:05.000
stirring my stomach so badly that I
had the urgent need to vomit, knowing

524
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:08.199
that he was eating dishes from the
kitchen. I was closer. I came

525
00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:15.039
in to do it, as I
felt I would vomit very soon, but

526
00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:19.880
I barely passed by that liver I
realized that the smell not only did not

527
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:24.519
displease me, but every time I
sucked it was as if I smelled the

528
00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:29.199
most exquisite food in the world.
Water was pouring in my mouth and I

529
00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:34.280
even forgot I wanted to throw up. I approached the table and my mother

530
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:38.360
- in- law seemed quite satisfied. I get myself a sign to try

531
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:43.760
it out and almost like I'
m in some sort of trance. I

532
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:46.960
cut a piece and put it in
my mouth. I don' t know

533
00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:52.159
if it' s normal for raw
meat to taste good to someone, but

534
00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:58.000
at the time I felt like it
was like filling me with life and in

535
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:00.639
case that was too little, once
I swallowed it, I didn' t

536
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:02.400
have any time of pain. It
was like she was cured. I couldn

537
00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:07.119
' t stop until I had finished
my whole liver. And not only that,

538
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:14.320
but I remember that I was so
eager to continue eating that I even

539
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:20.400
drank everything that organ had released into
the plate. My mother- in-

540
00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:22.800
law told me that that was very
good and that, without a doubt,

541
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:28.360
her grandson deserved the best food they
could give him and that, from that

542
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:30.280
day on, she would take care
of bringing me what I could eat.

543
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:36.639
The truth is that at that moment
I felt so relaxed because I had finally

544
00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:39.280
calmed my hunger that I did not
pay attention to what I was saying.

545
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.639
I just let her keep talking,
especially because I remember that at some point

546
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:52.239
it seemed that she wasn' t
talking to me, but with my belly,

547
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:57.519
because she wasn' t expecting any
answers and I only followed her until

548
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:01.239
she left and as soon as she
did, I had this idea that if

549
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:06.000
she didn' t feel any discomfort
anymore, she could keep eating whatever she

550
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:12.000
wanted. I decided to make an
avocado bread, which I enjoyed so much,

551
00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:14.280
but I barely swallowed it. I
got my stomach back. Again I

552
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:20.679
could not understand what was different,
but the next morning my mother- in

553
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.559
- law came back with more animal
organs not only liver but also hearts,

554
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:31.760
kidneys, chicken gizzards and even brought
me a goat' s brain. He

555
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:37.400
said that all that was what my
baby needed to grow strong and healthy and

556
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:42.519
do the greatness that I was meant
to do. All this was already very

557
00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:46.159
strange to me, but the truth
is I didn' t know how to

558
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:51.360
act on it. As the months
progressed, I realized that these attitudes were

559
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:55.360
getting stronger and stronger to the point
that I, seriously, felt that no

560
00:46:55.440 --> 00:47:00.440
one was taking me into account at
all anymore. I was just a recipient,

561
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.559
and every time anyone in the family, my husband and even my own

562
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:12.639
husband referred to me it was always
talking directly to the baby, who was

563
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:16.760
growing inside me, but never directly
to me, but to tell me that

564
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:23.360
I should eat such a thing or
drink. Throughout my pregnancy I fed exclusively

565
00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:30.039
on totally raw animal organs, as
it seemed to be the only thing I

566
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:36.000
could eat. All this was causing
me some sort of depression in which I

567
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:39.840
even thought I hated my baby and
everything that he had been doing to me.

568
00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:46.800
It was not only that it seemed
that the only thing I accepted was

569
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:53.199
raw meat, but I also felt
that I was hurting my body. I

570
00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:58.280
don' t know anything inside of
me. He told me that he would

571
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:04.840
cause that after I was born I
would end badly and affect my health irreversibly.

572
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:09.239
And not only that, but also
at the beginning of my second trimester,

573
00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:15.280
I began to feel different. I
felt a lot of hatred and not

574
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.280
just towards the baby, but the
world in general. All the time I

575
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:23.199
was in a bad mood and even
started having dreams that hurt the people around

576
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:30.639
me. The funny thing is that
in the dream I didn' t feel

577
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:37.320
scared, but extremely happy that everyone
was afraid and always woke up. By

578
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:43.559
the time I thought of ending my
own life because of the covid I was

579
00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:49.239
becoming more and more isolated because everyone
around me felt they didn' t want

580
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:53.280
to do any harm to the baby, so I received very few visits.

581
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:59.400
I remember the only way they let
me out of the house was to go

582
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:04.800
to my visitors. To the doctor
and make sure everything was okay. And

583
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:09.719
one day while we were waiting for
our turn at the private clinic, a

584
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:15.119
nice older woman sat next to me
and smiled at me and asked me nicely

585
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:21.519
if I could touch my belly.
I was about to tell her to leave

586
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:25.039
me alone, since I wasn'
t in the mood for that, but

587
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:30.000
I guess a part of me just
wanted to be able to talk to someone

588
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.760
who would treat me as a person
and not as a vessel, so I

589
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:37.639
told her I was fine. That
woman put her hand in my belly and

590
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:43.920
almost immediately, she backed back by
throwing a scary scream and scaredly, told

591
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:49.880
me that I was bringing the devil
inside. That woman was so upset that

592
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:54.119
she started praying to tell me again
and again that what she had inside was

593
00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:59.559
not human. Some guards pulled her
out as she was altering the order.

594
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.320
I went back to see my mother- in- law to see what she

595
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:06.880
thought, thinking she' d be
as disoriented as I was. But instead

596
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:10.559
I looked at that woman with a
lot of hate. It was almost as

597
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:16.320
if he was bothered to be exposed. I even remember as soon as they

598
00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:22.239
finished ultrasounding me to check that everything
was okay. With the pregnancy, we

599
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.519
returned to the house and almost immediately, she locked herself in a room to

600
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:30.119
talk to my husband. They wouldn' t let me hear anything. Even

601
00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:36.880
when I asked them what they were
talking about, they told me that nothing

602
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.079
important and that I should avoid any
kind of stress, as they didn'

603
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:45.320
t want that to hurt the baby. That answer was given to me for

604
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:51.280
practically everything and at that moment you
could say that I burst. I demanded

605
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:54.599
to know what was happening and to
receive the same answer that I was given,

606
00:50:54.639 --> 00:50:59.800
every time I was upset about anything
I was disconnected. I don'

607
00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:02.280
t know. It was as if
my eyes were cloudy and as soon as

608
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:07.760
I could react, I realized that
my husband had his face scratched and my

609
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:10.159
mother- in- law had a
bruise on his face. But even though

610
00:51:10.199 --> 00:51:15.480
I had evidently been responsible for such
wounds, neither of them seemed to be

611
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:22.280
upset with me, but quite the
contrary, they seemed proud and happy.

612
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:29.159
I remember being told something like that
the baby I was carrying inside would be

613
00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:34.280
strong and determined and I wouldn'
t let anything stand in their way to

614
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:38.559
greatness. I was so disoriented at
the time and to a certain extent ashamed

615
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:43.400
that I didn' t tell them
anything and went away and locked myself in

616
00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:46.599
my room. Throughout that day,
something was very wrong with me and I

617
00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:51.679
felt that no one wanted to listen
to me. But the strange things that

618
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:55.599
were happening to my body didn'
t stop there, as about the fifth

619
00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:01.400
month I started to have situations that
couldn' t be considered exactly normal.

620
00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:08.480
For example, one day tired of
the running of the bulls, I decided

621
00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:12.159
to go to the supermarket at a
time when I was alone in the house.

622
00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:15.920
At first everything was normal, but
when I got to the hallway of

623
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:21.159
home and garden I found myself facing
in front of an axe. I don

624
00:52:21.239 --> 00:52:24.679
' t know. I just started
having those thoughts of my dreams again,

625
00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:30.639
but it wasn' t something I
really wanted to do. It was like

626
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:35.360
some kind of compulsion. It was
almost as if something inside me told me

627
00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:42.119
what to do. I could almost
feel someone whispering in my ear prompting me

628
00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:46.599
to do it. At that time
I was dealing with all the willpower I

629
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:52.280
had to not lose control, although
I felt seriously that I was losing that

630
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:59.960
battle and even got to the point
of trying to stop that seizure, although

631
00:52:59.960 --> 00:53:04.920
I was beginning to have I hit
my head with both hands, trying to

632
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:09.519
make the pain make me forget those
thoughts, although something strange happened, and

633
00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:14.880
it is that all the things on
the shelf fell. It was as if

634
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:19.559
it had shaken in such a violent
way that everything had fallen to the ground.

635
00:53:20.519 --> 00:53:23.800
At that moment I tried to ignore
it, but every time I remember

636
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:28.440
it, I can' t help
but think that I did that with my

637
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:34.000
mind. That afternoon I returned home
without buying anything and tried to calm down,

638
00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:38.239
thinking that what was happening could not
be real, but looking at my

639
00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:43.519
face in a mirror, I felt
so overwhelmed, I threw a cry of

640
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:49.000
frustration and the mirror broke. I
felt like I was going crazy. I

641
00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:52.719
even called my brother and told him
everything, but he told me to calm

642
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:57.800
down and that we could go with
a psychologist, since thinking about that kind

643
00:53:57.880 --> 00:54:02.800
of thing wasn' t normal,
but obviously it could be the fact that

644
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:07.360
I was pregnant, but that I
had to go with a specialist to give

645
00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:13.360
me his opinion about it. I
wanted to listen to my brother and go

646
00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:17.960
to a specialist, because I felt
it was a danger to people and I

647
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:22.400
didn' t want to commit any
madness. But I figured if it was

648
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:28.199
about the pregnancy hormones, I just
had to hang in there until the baby

649
00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:32.039
came out of me and after that
it would be okay. But I couldn

650
00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:37.199
' t be more wrong. My
baby was born prematurely at six months,

651
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:39.960
on the sixth day of month six. I really don' t think this

652
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.360
was a coincidence and that' s
why I couldn' t help but put

653
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:47.920
it here. His birth was too
painful for me, I lost consciousness the

654
00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:53.320
moment he was born. Surprisingly,
as soon as I woke up, I

655
00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:58.880
realized a couple of things. In
the first place, no one was in

656
00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:02.760
my room waiting for me to wake
up, as I had assumed during the

657
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:07.880
entire pregnancy. It seemed that I
no longer mattered and now that it had

658
00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:10.239
come out of me, it no
longer represented any kind of value to them.

659
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:15.039
I heard something, too. Although
all the studies had said it would

660
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:20.360
be a boy, the baby turned
out to be a girl with quite distinctive

661
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:28.440
blue eyes. Despite having six months
of gestation, she was perfectly well in

662
00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:32.760
health, she did not need respirator
or any kind of attention. All the

663
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:37.440
doctors assumed he must have had more
time than I had said, but I

664
00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:43.599
was sure how many months he was. But again it seemed that no one

665
00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:49.079
cared what I had to say about
it. When my recovery was ready,

666
00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:52.480
I went home with the baby and
my husband. Everyone was totally excited about

667
00:55:52.599 --> 00:56:00.000
this baby even though I had absolutely
nothing for her. I didn' t

668
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:04.519
misunderstand, I didn' t hate
her, but when I saw her,

669
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:09.880
I couldn' t feel that mother' s love that many claimed I should

670
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:15.960
have, although I thought it didn' t matter, as that baby was

671
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:21.199
getting too much attention and love from
my husband, my mother- in-

672
00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:22.920
law and practically all my husband'
s family. They treated that little girl

673
00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:29.079
like she was some kind of incarnate
miracle. For a moment, I even

674
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:32.639
doubted my own mental health, thinking
that what I felt was nothing but jealousy

675
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:37.920
of a baby and that I was
the bad one in this whole situation.

676
00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:43.719
I even went to therapy to see
what was wrong with me, although no

677
00:56:43.760 --> 00:56:46.760
matter how much therapy I took,
the truth is that I couldn' t

678
00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:52.320
make myself feel something for that baby
and while they were going through the months,

679
00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:55.639
I came to the idea that maybe
I could never get to love my

680
00:56:55.719 --> 00:57:00.880
own daughter, but I made the
promise to myself that, even if I

681
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:06.559
couldn' t feel anything for her, I would take care of her and

682
00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:12.360
make sure she was okay, as
it had been my decision to bring her

683
00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:14.679
into this world, although very soon
I realized that the girl didn' t

684
00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:19.400
want me. At first I assumed
that it was because I had been relatively

685
00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:22.440
absent throughout this stage at which we
were supposed to have created the bond,

686
00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:29.280
so I thought it should only be
a matter of time. But she didn

687
00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:32.960
' t, since she didn'
t love me, she wouldn' t

688
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.199
even let me breastfeed her. I
always wanted to be as far away from

689
00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:40.360
myself as possible and it was the
opposite with my husband. I also learned

690
00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:45.199
to accept that and I thought it
was okay. There would be time to

691
00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:49.119
make a bond with her as soon
as she was a little older to understand

692
00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:52.639
who she was. I also assumed
that it would be a good time to

693
00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:59.199
try to put all my ideas and
feelings for her in order. When she

694
00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:01.920
was a year old, I realized
she wasn' t like other kids.

695
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:07.719
From the beginning, I knew that
there was something a little strange, as

696
00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:13.840
she was not a child who wept
almost never, but she did not laugh

697
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.840
either. He just kept quiet or
stared at you. His gaze was also

698
00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:22.840
so heavy that many of my acquaintances
came to tell me that they felt uncomfortable

699
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:28.559
with my baby, as his gaze
was very penetrating, even to be so

700
00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:34.639
small, even during his first months
of life. I insisted on taking her

701
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:39.719
with a specialist, as she seemed
painless and did not react to several important

702
00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:45.000
stimuli that, according to the books, a baby should react. Although my

703
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:50.559
husband and mother- in- law
said she was perfect and had no flaws,

704
00:58:51.239 --> 00:58:54.360
I insisted until we took her.
But once with the pediatrician, she

705
00:58:54.800 --> 00:59:00.400
started acting like a normal baby.
He even laughed, felt almost like he

706
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:06.920
was acting for him. But again
I assumed I was exaggerating and maybe it

707
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:13.599
was just mother' s nerves.
First grade a year. This child could

708
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:20.000
speak, but not just one or
two words. He said complex words and

709
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:23.360
prayers, if not for that childish
voice. You could say he spoke better

710
00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:30.440
than many adults. My husband said
it was because she was probably going to

711
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:34.639
be a super genius or something,
but I realized that sometimes she said words

712
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:39.280
that even my husband and I didn' t understand where I could be learning

713
00:59:39.320 --> 00:59:45.800
them. And his intelligence only increased
over time. But what was also increasing

714
00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:51.719
was the large number of paranormal events
that were beginning to occur around him.

715
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:57.519
I remember the first time she let
me know she wasn' t dealing with

716
00:59:57.559 --> 01:00:01.159
anything in this world. On one
occasion, my husband was not bathing her

717
01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:06.639
and was charging her to take her
to her room, to sleep, but

718
01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:12.239
as soon as I laid her down
in her crib to wish her good night,

719
01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:15.440
she remained in complete silence. Looking
at me, her blue eyes seemed

720
01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:20.719
to absorb the light from the lamp
and the truth is that I was starting

721
01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:25.440
to get uncomfortable, so I turned
around willing to leave the room when suddenly

722
01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:32.199
I heard a voice telling me to
look into my stupid eyes, although that

723
01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:36.840
wasn' t my daughter' s
voice. It sounded different more like an

724
01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:40.719
old man' s voice. I
turned around to check who was in my

725
01:00:40.760 --> 01:00:46.519
daughter' s room, but there
was no one, only she was still

726
01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:50.760
lying there, thinking it was my
imagination. Because of everything I had thought

727
01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:55.000
about her particular look, I decided
to turn back, but in doing so

728
01:00:55.079 --> 01:01:00.280
I heard the exact same phrase again, ordering me to come back and look

729
01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:06.039
her in the eye. But this
time the voice wasn' t my daughter

730
01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:08.719
' s or an old man'
s either. It seemed as if there

731
01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:15.039
were several people speaking at the same
time, men, women, children,

732
01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:17.880
of different ages. More upset.
I approached my daughter' s crib and

733
01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:23.119
saw her eyes shining in a superhuman
way. There was no chance that her

734
01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:29.599
eyes would absorb so much light,
but not only that, since she was

735
01:01:29.719 --> 01:01:34.000
laughing, although again it was not
her voice, It was as if all

736
01:01:34.079 --> 01:01:40.199
people were inside her and were laughing
scared. I left the room, leaving

737
01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:45.480
my little girl in the crib,
and I called my husband to tell him

738
01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:47.679
what happened, but he didn'
t believe me. He told me that

739
01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:54.079
he was imagining it or that maybe
he had heard a weird transmission on the

740
01:01:54.679 --> 01:02:00.239
baby' s radio and that maybe
she was very upset, although when she

741
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:04.400
came back the first thing she did
was go to the girl' s room

742
01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:06.480
and lock herself up with her.
I stuck my ear to the door,

743
01:02:06.920 --> 01:02:12.079
but only drowned murmurs were heard.
Although there were two sentences I could hear.

744
01:02:12.719 --> 01:02:16.039
He told her that I wouldn'
t understand it, that she wouldn

745
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:21.800
' t do it in front of
me, and after that, my husband

746
01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:24.519
came out and told me that the
girl was fine and that I had nothing

747
01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:30.880
to worry about. At first I
tried to ignore it, thinking that maybe

748
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:36.000
I had heard wrong and as I
had been attending therapy, I came to

749
01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:40.440
the conclusion that maybe I had some
kind of postpartum depression coupled with the fact

750
01:02:40.519 --> 01:02:45.199
that I felt some guilt and resentment
that I could not love my daughter like

751
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:50.599
any mother would. That was the
main reason why I decided to ignore all

752
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:54.719
this. I guess a part of
me didn' t want to believe that

753
01:02:54.760 --> 01:03:00.239
those things were real, although from
that day on my daughter' s attitude

754
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:04.639
on the way saw though before it
was serious and reserved. Now sometimes I

755
01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:08.480
could swear he was watching me.
I have no other way of explaining it.

756
01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:13.480
It was that simple after the day
I had heard her, to speak

757
01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:19.079
strangely trying to make sure that I
didn' t know too much, because

758
01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:23.679
soon after, she learned to walk
and somehow managed to always get out of

759
01:03:23.719 --> 01:03:31.599
the cradle without getting hurt. And
while I was doing any work. A

760
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:37.679
short time later I could feel a
heavy look and I always found her standing

761
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:44.039
there staring at me and even though
I was asking her if she needed anything,

762
01:03:44.039 --> 01:03:45.480
she never answered me. She only
looked at me until, because of

763
01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:51.599
the same discomfort, I left the
room, although it was of no use,

764
01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:57.719
as soon after I saw her back
then I felt like a prisoner in

765
01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:02.800
that house. I will tell you
the most important events that made me realize

766
01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:09.239
that it was not my imagination and
that, indeed, something very bad was

767
01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:14.639
happening with that child. The first
was that, on one occasion, my

768
01:04:14.679 --> 01:04:17.360
daughter was invited to a neighbor'
s children' s party across the street.

769
01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:23.840
Everything was normal at first. Mothers
were in a circle watching him.

770
01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:30.159
How babies interacted. My daughter was
playing with some building blocks, which was

771
01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:34.800
basically the only toy she accepted when, suddenly, another baby who was one

772
01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:39.760
year older than her, approached her
and took away the block in her hand.

773
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:45.519
I guess at first no one noticed
what was going on, but I,

774
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:48.440
who hadn' t taken my daughter' s eyes off from the moment

775
01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:53.719
we got to the party, could
notice that something changed in her eyes.

776
01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:58.719
It was almost like it was some
kind of flash and from one moment to

777
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:01.440
the next. My daughter is n
was on another child. The way they

778
01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:05.679
beat him didn' t look like
a baby fight, at least not on

779
01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:11.239
my daughter' s side. His
blows seriously seemed very strong and, despite

780
01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:15.000
the age difference, which in this
period of their lives is certainly very remarkable.

781
01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:20.519
She was beating him in spite of
how much half the other kid.

782
01:05:23.639 --> 01:05:29.119
The strangest thing about this situation was
that none of us was able to separate

783
01:05:29.119 --> 01:05:32.559
them, of course we tried.
I pulled it, but the strength in

784
01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:38.760
which I had him was very strong
for a child of his age. The

785
01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:44.440
same mother of the other baby tried
to separate them, but did not succeed

786
01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:47.400
at some point. My daughter began
to strangle him, although the way he

787
01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:53.159
did it was as if he had
done it millions of times. The child

788
01:05:53.199 --> 01:05:58.880
even began to get purple and finally
my husband arrived and managed to separate them,

789
01:05:59.760 --> 01:06:04.239
but the baby was unconscious. Lucky
for me, they called an ambulance.

790
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:10.840
Which managed to revive him and apparently
no longer had any problems, but

791
01:06:10.880 --> 01:06:15.079
that incident at that party caused me
to rethink what I had begotten in my

792
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:23.239
womb for those six months. The
next situation was with birds. Usually,

793
01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:27.800
when any animal came into contact with
my daughter, she got very nervous,

794
01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:32.360
turned back and even at some point
was close to a horse, which wanted

795
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:39.639
to attack her for no reason,
so we tried not to have any kind

796
01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:45.119
of animal in the house by this
time. My daughter was about two and

797
01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:48.719
a half years old and many will
know that this is a very difficult stage

798
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:54.239
for parents, as children tend to
be quite curious and in the process destroy

799
01:06:54.320 --> 01:06:59.239
things my little girl. It wasn' t really like that. He would

800
01:06:59.320 --> 01:07:02.079
normally throw himself in the foot and
stare at a fixed point for a long

801
01:07:02.079 --> 01:07:06.519
time. It was almost like I
was in some sort of trance that the

802
01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:13.079
house didn' t have a single
noise. It became my normality. On

803
01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:17.440
one occasion I was making the food
and everything was in total silence. I

804
01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:23.679
tried not to have music in case
my daughter screamed or needed something, although

805
01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:29.239
sometimes I felt that by her age
she was too independent and she didn'

806
01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:32.079
t need me at all. Suddenly
I heard something. It was like a

807
01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:35.480
very hard blow, though it seemed
to come from outside. I looked out

808
01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:40.480
the window, but I didn'
t get to see anything on the street,

809
01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:43.679
so I didn' t give it
any more importance and went on with

810
01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:47.599
my food. About six minutes passed
when I heard a rather similar sound again.

811
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:54.119
Again, it sounded like it was
coming from outside, but to tell

812
01:07:54.199 --> 01:07:58.440
you the truth, there was nothing
on the street. This was repeated about

813
01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:01.840
seven or eight more times and I
was wondering what was causing that sound.

814
01:08:03.679 --> 01:08:08.960
The idea that it actually came directly
from the house began to cross my mind,

815
01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:13.840
so I went to check every room
to see if there was anything that

816
01:08:13.880 --> 01:08:19.359
might be causing the sound. At
first. The more I checked, the

817
01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:24.079
more I confirmed the idea that the
sound came from outside. But as soon

818
01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:28.319
as I opened my daughter' s
room, I realized she was on her

819
01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:32.199
knees to the window. I was
just about to ask him what he was

820
01:08:32.239 --> 01:08:39.479
doing. When I suddenly heard a
blow so loud that it made me jump

821
01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:44.079
a bird had crashed into the window. My daughter wasn' t surprised.

822
01:08:44.439 --> 01:08:47.199
On the contrary, he seemed to
smile. I asked him what he was

823
01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:51.840
doing. As I approached the window
and as I was about to look out,

824
01:08:53.239 --> 01:08:57.159
a black bird crashed so hard that
it left a blood stain on the

825
01:08:57.239 --> 01:09:03.000
terrified glass. I looked up and
saw, like, seven dead birds or

826
01:09:03.039 --> 01:09:06.920
dying lying outside the window. I
can' t say for sure, but

827
01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:12.239
something inside me tells me she was
the one I was doing. That'

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s because, seeing his face was
of extreme satisfaction. Later, when my

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husband arrived at the house, I
told him what had happened, but he

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minimized things by saying that it was
probably just a strange coincidence and that the

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animals were very stupid and very often
had weird behaviors. But that didn'

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t mean our daughter was responsible.
The latter was undoubtedly the most horrible thing

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I saw but at the same time
it was also something like my release.

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I began to find gnawed fruit and
part of my pantry invaded by rats.

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So full of Asco I told my
husband that we needed to go to the

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supermarket to buy a couple of coughing
traps for those animals. He said yes,

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and that same day we went along
with my daughter to the supermarket.

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I got a little ahead of myself
trying to get away from both my husband

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and my daughter. I was locked
in the house all day with her and

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sometimes I really felt like I needed
a break. I took some traps,

841
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so I started looking for my husband
to go around until I found him in

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01:10:25.720 --> 01:10:30.000
the fruit section, talking to a
man I couldn' t tell at first

843
01:10:30.119 --> 01:10:35.039
sight. I had never seen my
husband have a friend like him, although

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by his body language, they seemed
to have known each other for a long

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time, even though that man was
an older man. I began to approach

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and once close enough, I realized
that this man was my father. I

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hadn' t seen him in so
long that I' d forgotten some of

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his features, but standing in front
of him, there was no doubt that

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it was about him. My father
greeted me and I was so upset at

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the time that I was not able
to return the greeting. Everything was terrifying

851
01:11:09.399 --> 01:11:13.479
and it was almost like I was
that girl again who knew nothing about the

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01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:17.920
world and was practically in captivity,
I didn' t know what else to

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01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:23.079
do. I just turned around and
walked out of the supermarket. I came

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01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:27.880
home in a taxi and later that
day my husband came along with my daughter.

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He went up to our room and
asked me what was wrong with me.

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01:11:31.920 --> 01:11:35.960
I couldn' t stand it at
the time. I asked him why

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01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:42.439
he knew that man or what kind
of relationship he had with him, and

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01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:45.520
almost as if he already had an
answer prepared for what I was going to

859
01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:49.279
ask him. He told me that
he was a friend of his family and

860
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that he knew him since he was
a child, but that he had no

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01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:58.159
idea that he was my father I
don' t know. Every word that

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01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:02.960
came out of his mouth sounded pure
falsehood to me. I was about to

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01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:10.039
claim him when suddenly we heard a
loud squeal that seemed to come from the

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kitchen. At that point, the
discussion stopped and we both went down to

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see what it was about. What
I saw is something that to this day

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01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:21.760
I find it hard to relate.
My daughter was in the kitchen and so

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was that big rat who had been
feeding on our pantry for a few weeks.

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The poor animal was in the air
and its extremities seemed to be being

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stretched out by some sort of invisible
force. The rat screamed and tried to

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twist, while my daughter stared at
her and at the same time laughed at

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01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:51.079
her suffering and from one moment to
another, the poor rodent exploded splashing many

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01:12:51.159 --> 01:12:57.359
parts of the kitchen and even my
face, my daughter, turned to see

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01:12:57.399 --> 01:13:00.920
me and with the same voice that
I had heard the day I had laid

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01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:06.680
her in her crib, said I
helped you almost instinctively. I went back

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to see my husband. I couldn' t say I was imagining it,

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01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:16.600
but instead of being scared, he
seemed rather worried about the fact that I

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had seen it and he just told
me that he could explain to me he

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01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:26.800
tried to hold my arm, but
I was so terrified that I ran out

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01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:30.199
of the house. I headed to
my brother' s house, where I

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01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:35.199
told him everything, and he told
me that he might have misinterpreted the situation,

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01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:40.560
but I told him there was no
way to misunderstand something like that.

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01:13:41.279 --> 01:13:45.840
Then I told her everything strange that
my daughter had been basically from the moment

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01:13:46.159 --> 01:13:51.119
she was conceived and for the first
time in a long time I could feel

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01:13:51.279 --> 01:13:57.600
that someone really believed my story.
He himself accompanied me back to the house

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01:13:57.640 --> 01:14:02.479
and to our surprise, it was
empty. There were no belongings of my

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01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:06.039
husband and no belongings of my daughter. The kitchen was still full of remains

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01:14:06.159 --> 01:14:13.399
of that rat, but since then
I never saw them again. I even

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01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:16.520
found out a while after my husband' s family moved out, too.

889
01:14:17.880 --> 01:14:24.359
We didn' t see my father
again today either. I' m not

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01:14:24.439 --> 01:14:28.880
sure what I brought into this world
or if all of us are in danger.

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01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.439
I thought maybe my whole life took
me to that moment. I mean,

892
01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:38.279
even though I tried to run away
from evil, it reached out to

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me and accomplished its task. Story
written and adapted by Lisa Hernández