Le Pedí A La Santa Muerte Que Se Deshiciera De Mi Padre Historias De Terror - REDE

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I did things in my past that
I' m not proud of. These

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events have happened to me for more
than ten years. At that time,

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he was eighteen years old. Perhaps
you can think that you already had the

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right age to understand what was right
and what wasn' t, but you

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didn' t. I know I
don' t have to look for guilty

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either, because I' m the
only one responsible. I was part of

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a dysfunctional family in which my dad
often got drunk when he was more alcoholized.

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He was pretty violent. We had
to listen to him in everything he

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said. If for some reason we
didn' t do what he sent us

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the moment he asked for it,
he would beat the one closest to him.

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They usually touched my mom because she
was trying to protect us She told

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us not to approach my dad to
keep him from hitting us, but she

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was the one who received any meaningless
blow. I never understood why my mom

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had so many children. If I
saw what my father was like to get

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pregnant for. Although I don'
t think it' s up to me

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to make a judgment of value,
especially because I didn' t know how

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to make the right decisions to avoid
being at home, I was looking for

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a way to be absent. At
that time I worked as an assistant in

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a tianguis. I was helping him
load and unload the vegetables to a man

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who paid me enough to buy drugs. I was with him from very early

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to supply the stock market. Then
we went to the colony where he put

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his place. Sometimes he helped the
lord sell his merchandise. When he was

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missing some helper, he asked me
to stay and support him, but that

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was not the case. Every time. After getting up very early to put

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up the post and load the merchandise, I stayed a long time off until

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it was time to load the merchandise. Brave to the van and disarm the

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vegetable stand. She wasn' t
the only person who worked that way.

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There were other boys doing the same
thing. Between them we had a relationship

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of fraternity without ever expressing anything,
we felt identified. They all had families

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just like or worse than mine,
so as it came time to get back

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to work, we were going to
a lonely, nearby place to use substances.

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We started with minor things, but
as we got more into the vice.

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We tested other substances that made us
evade our reality. As time passed,

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I sank into a dead end.
I wasn' t thinking about the

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consequences of my actions. I just
wanted to feel good, so I got

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it. I avoided being at home
most of the time because my parents did

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not know for certain in the steps
I was walking, but they could notice

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that something was happening to me.
My father spoke to me in a derogatory

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way, insulted me and told me
things I prefer not to repeat. Again.

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I can' t lie that I
got to hate him, that he

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started since he was little, because, since he was the eldest son,

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he was taking his anger away from
me for many years, he beat me

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until one day I rebelled. I
remember that day he lifted his belt to

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hit me. I stopped it and
pulled it hard. I saw in my

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dad' s eyes the same hatred
I had with my mom. It was

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different. She was self- sacrificing
and submissive almost daily. He asked me

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to cry that I behaved well that
I needed to be able to leave the

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house and bring money to cover all
the needs. But at that time I

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did not think of her or my
brothers, who also lived as I did.

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I used to make money to buy
substances. I gave my mom some

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money, but it was too little
to cover so many shortages in the house

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with the group of friends I had
made more friendship with Arthur. He lived

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in a situation very similar to mine, so we felt comfortable talking about our

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problems. There was someone else in
the band who was telling us what to

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do. His name was Shui.
He liked to dig up sinister things.

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Shui was part of a congregation that
worshiped Holy Death. He often invited us

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to be part of that group,
but neither Arthur nor I was interested.

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Hui told us that if we made
offerings and petitions to the White Girl,

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she would give us everything we asked. We just had to be faithful to

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him all the time. I only
heard him speak without paying attention to him

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near the colony in which we lived. There was a cemetery that had a

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particular characteristic. He was not surrounded, i e he had no wires,

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bars or bars to prevent access to
the pantheon. The tombs were on a

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free ground where he could be accessed
at any time, even at night.

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The cemetery was called Senecu, but
it was better known as the children'

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s pantheon. They named it that
way because most of the human remains in

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that place belonged to minors. There
was a rumor in the neighboring colonies and

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in general in Chihuahua that the children
went out to play at night, that

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they heard laughter from infants and that
if you stayed in a car near the

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pantheon, the crystals were left with
small handprints. That place was the place

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where we liked to hang out and
take substances. At night. We were

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not very close to our homes,
but it was ideal because he was often

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lonely. It was so quiet that
there was even peace and tranquility. At

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first we began to go out of
curiosity and morbid to see if it was

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true that the spirits of the children
were going out at night we stayed very

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late. I was asking Arthur if
he noticed anything. He replied that we

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did not pay attention to any movement
or sound we heard, but everything remained

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absolutely silent. Shui once told us
that he was going to do a ritual

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at the cemetery. The land of
pantheon was the ideal instrument for any spell.

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He told us to come out at
midnight outside the cemetery. So we

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' d realize it did work.
He continued to talk to us about the

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Holy Death and how well it felt
to have a powerful being on his side,

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as she had protected him. Of
all the dangers. Chuy told us

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that on one occasion that he assaulted
a woman, the neighbors came out to

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help him. He ran across the
street, but more people came from that

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side stood on the threshold of a
door as it was at night. He

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went unnoticed. He never knew how
they didn' t see him. Surely

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the White girl had protected him,
she hid him from those people It didn

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' t give Shui so much credibility. He believed that everything was the product

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of his fanaticism and that it was
not possible that death was protecting him at

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that point. I no longer believed
in anything, not even the blessings he

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gave me. My mom. Out
of curiosity I told him that I would

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be in the cemetery at midnight,
while Arthur asked me not to, that

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we did not need to get into
more trouble than we already had. I

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asked him to come to the pantheon
with us, but he didn' t

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agree. That day, when I
arrived at the house, there were many

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people gathered outside my home. I
immediately thought of my mom something bad had

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happened, because I found my brothers
crying. One of them told me that

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my dad had become more drunk and
violent than on other occasions he hit my

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mom so hard that it was necessary
to ask a neighbor for help. She

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immediately called the police. My father
was taken in custody and my mother was

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already being treated by the emergency services. His clothes and his face had traces

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of the violence he received. My
brothers were in a corner crying scared.

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As soon as they saw me,
they ran to hug me. I was

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his only source of security at the
time and it hurts me to think about

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it, but I wasn' t
the ideal person to protect them, because

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I wasn' t even in the
house to help my mom and put my

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father in her place. As I
watched the whole family scene, I felt

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a lot of hatred for my dad. One of the neighbors left in the

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ambulance with my mom to stay and
take care of my brothers. Although I

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think the real reason she didn'
t want me to go with her was

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because I was not sober at home. I felt desperate to see the traces

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of violence everywhere. He made me
feel like getting back at my dad.

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I asked my brothers to help me
pick up the mess. I bought them

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milk and cereal and gave them dinner. They slowly calmed down, and I

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took them to their beds to rest. I saw when they fell asleep.

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Still my brother, the youngest,
sobbing a little until he fell deeply asleep.

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I heard, when a car came
out of the house, I ran

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to see that it wasn' t
my father, but it wasn' t

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him In the car came my mom
and neighbor. My mother came with a

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bandage around her face. As soon
as she saw me, she cried and

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hugged me. He still stayed for
a few more minutes to figure out how

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the situation was in the house.
He probably did it because I didn'

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t look so good. The substances
were already wreaking havoc on my physique.

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He left with distrust. My mom
asked me not to walk in bad steps

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anymore, but I was really a
negligent person. I didn' t think

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of her or my brothers. By
acting the way he was doing it.

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I said yes, but I didn' t have the conviction to do it.

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I went to bed my mother in
her bed. Little by little she

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fell asleep carefully. I got out
of his bed, I got out of

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his room, and I saw that
they were going to do 12 o'

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clock at night. I went on
my brother' s bike to the cemetery.

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I remembered the date I had with
Shui. While I was pedaling,

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I was thinking about how to get
back at my father. The streets were

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dark and desolate. It wasn'
t ideal for me to go out at

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those hours of the night, but
I was more than used to doing it.

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Almost every day. I used to
spend it outside the house. I

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was trying to get here as late
as possible so I wouldn' t see

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my alcoholic father or my mom,
putting up with everything that man did to

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her. My house was not so
close to the cemetery, but with the

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speed I was taking I arrived in
a few minutes Shui smiled. When he

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saw me coming, he noticed that
he was very pleased to see me.

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Shui was carrying several things in a
bag. He pulled out two candlelights.

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A fetish was a small doll made
crudely a jar of a dark liquid,

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of which I never knew it was
as well as other strange elements and fruit.

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I didn' t understand why I
needed food, but I didn'

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t ask anything. I was just
out of curiosity and I didn' t

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want to ruin the moment by asking
so many questions. We were walking through

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the cemetery between the graves in front
of us Iba Shui. It wasn'

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t the first time I was in
that place. However, this time I

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felt a bit of fear. There
was a little wind that moved the few

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trees and the weed that had grown
in a disturbing way. In the distance

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I came to distinguish a shadow that
moved between the tombs. I immediately thought

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about what was said about the cemetery
and the children. I didn' t

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say anything to my friends out of
fear that they would laugh at me,

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but I kept noticing that a small
head was sticking out of the tombstone.

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I also heard a laugh. I
asked Shui if he had listened. He

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didn' t listen to me.
He was still looking for the ideal grave

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until he got to it. The
tomb did not have a tombstone, just

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a pile of land, a cross
made of wood on which it called the

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name José Luis, who was born
in the year of nineteen hundred and twelve

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and had died when he was ten
years old. I didn' t say

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anything to my friends anymore. I
just saw what I was doing. Shui

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started digging to the side of the
tomb. He carried a large metal spoon,

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which served as a shovel to make
a small hole. Then he gave

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it to me to keep digging.
It was strange to realize that the earth

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was not so hard. It seemed
as if it had been removed a short

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time ago. While I was digging
through the earth, I found something solid.

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I kept opening space and bumped into
a bone. As soon as I

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saw it was a human bone,
I ventured it. The bone was left

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on the ground. Humeda Shui pointed
the light at his hand lamp. He

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laughed out loud and kicked the bone
to stay further away. Without telling him

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anything. I went to pick him
up. I thought I couldn' t

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stay away from the rest of the
bones that made up the little boy'

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s skeleton. I made a small
hole and deposited it back in the grave.

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Without listening to me. Shui began
the ritual, lit the candlelights and

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made strange prayers invoking the White Girl. After praising her, he offered her

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the fruit that he bore. In
the end he made his request. He

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wanted money and power. He kept
praying for more minutes. Right away,

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she told me that it was my
turn that I could make any request to

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the Holy One because she would fulfill
any wish I had that was impossible,

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that seemed to me I made a
few steps back. I said no.

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I wasn' t there to fulfill
any wish. I just wanted to go

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with him. Shui insisted again I
refused to see that I didn' t

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listen to him. He urged our
friend to do it, but he didn

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' t want to do it,
too. A little annoying. Shui told

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us we were kobas, though not
believing at all. I begged the Saint

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that if she really fulfilled her wishes, she wanted my father to die and

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suffer. While he was doing it
right away, we huddled and Shui ended

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the ritual by shutting down the candlelights
by saying done is that any wish is

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fulfilled. I didn' t take
it seriously because I was just curious.

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Years ago I had asked God,
Our Lady and all the saints to change

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my father to have a more normal
family. But since none of them listened

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to me, I no longer believed
in anything or anyone. Chuy buried the

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fetish he was wearing. I didn' t understand why I was doing the

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ritual in a grave, but I
didn' t ask either. We started

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walking to get out of the cemetery. While we were doing it again.

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I heard as if someone were walking
behind us. I stopped a little bit

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to see who it was, but
I couldn' t see anyone. I

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just heard the muo muro of a
voice, like someone was talking to me

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already. I didn' t want
to be there any longer. I walked

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faster trying to keep my friends from
noticing, but Shui started laughing at me.

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He told me not to be afraid. Now the Saint was protecting us.

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Obviously, I didn' t believe
anything at all. Without comment,

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I walked away from the cemetery.
Before I left, I turned back to

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the pantheon. I never knew if
it was my imagination and nervousness, but

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I thought I saw the silhouette of
a little guy standing still. Seeing me,

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we went home. Shui was also
riding a bicycle. I took the

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devils of my vice and left my
other friend outside his house. When I

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was heading towards mine, I had
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I would stop for a few seconds
to look back without seeing anyone. However,

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that feeling was not taken away from
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My mom didn' t even realize
she' d been out. Three days

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later, my dad went free.
My mom didn' t want to report

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him, and my dad came home
on Monday afternoon. As soon as I

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saw him, I went out into
the street. I didn' t want

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to be in front of him because
I had a lot of courage for what

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he did to my mother. He
tried to talk to me, but I

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didn' t hear him. I
left immediately and went to Arthur' s

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house. I stayed with my friend
until very late. I didn' t

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want to go home for two things, for not seeing my father and because

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I still felt like someone was following
me. Later I went home. I

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found it very strange to see the
lights on at that time of night.

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It was almost 1: 00 in
the morning. As soon as I opened

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the door to the house, I
saw my dad sitting on a couch,

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holding his stomach tight. My mom
asked me to go to the neighbor,

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ask her husband to take us to
the hospital in his car, or go

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get a taxi. I did the
second thing, but at that time no

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cab went through the streets. I
walked through different parts without getting it.

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The truth is I didn' t
make much effort to look for one when

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I came back, he twisted from
the pain. I could not deny that

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I felt compassion, even though I
knew I deserved it. I wanted to

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get him off the floor, but
he didn' t consent. He told

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me not to move it because it
hurt horrible. He kept complaining more and

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more, he didn' t know
what to do, until my father screamed

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very loudly and began to vomit blood. Then I don' t know what

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substance he threw, because it was
dark black. It was like this for

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a longer time until he began to
delirious. I don' t know what

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happened to him. He seemed to
see someone because he had his gaze fixed

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on nothing shouting that not just seeing
his face transformed by pain and fear.

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I felt a lot of compassion.
His courage had dissipated. I tried to

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sit him down so he wouldn'
t drown with his own vomit. It

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was the last thing I did for
him, because I felt when his body

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faded, he was inert without life. It was an event that marked me

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because I felt guilty. I thought
it was all due to my thought of

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death the moment Shui performed the ritual
at the children' s cemetery. During

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the time I held my father'
s body in my arms, many negative

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thoughts came into my mind. Perhaps
for that reason unexplainable things began to happen

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to me, because I began to
feel someone' s presence again it was

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as if they were accompanying me everywhere. At first I only had that perception,

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but as we performed my father'
s funeral, what I felt became

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present to my father. We'
re watching him in the house. We

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didn' t have enough money to
take him to a chapel, so during

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the night of his wake I noticed
that there was a person in the kitchen.

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I went to support whoever it was
to give water to coffee or whatever

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it might take. However, I
was tremendously surprised when I found no one.

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I was sure I' d seen
a person go into the kitchen.

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I looked for her and when I
didn' t find her I walked into

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the living room, but before a
cup came out she fell without any explanation.

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When I turned around, I saw
a spectrum hidden behind the cabinet,

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only his head looked completely dark.
I almost fell off the impression. I

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threw out several disposable plates and glasses
that were on the table. When I

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turned back that entity was gone.
My mom went into the kitchen. When

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he heard the noise, he asked
me what was happening another time. I

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would have replied that nothing, but
because of the fear that caused me,

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I told him what I had seen. I thought my mom wouldn' t

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believe me, but, contrary to
what I expected, she took me by

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the hand, took me to a
room with a quiet voice. He asked

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me not to be afraid. Maybe
it was my dad' s spirit that

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wasn' t leaving this whole world
of life, the kind of life he

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had and the sudden way he died. The safest thing was that his soul

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was still with us. The best
thing was to give him a dignified farewell,

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because he was realizing everything, although
he didn' t treat us the

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best way, we didn' t
have to have resentment or resentment My mom

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' s words didn' t give
me confidence, not because I wasn'

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t right. Perhaps it was true, but my instinct told me that it

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was not so, because since I
was in the cemetery of the children,

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I had left that feeling. But
not to worry my mom I didn'

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t make any comments. I just
felt. Most of the night I was

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watching my father' s body.
Every moment I checked my brothers' room,

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but they slept quietly. It was
going to be 4: 00 in

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the morning. When I saw again
in the courtyard that shadow hiding between the

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plants, I feared that it would
happen to me for the same thing as

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my father. We don' t
take my dad to be buried. My

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mom decided to incinerate it, since
she didn' t have the money to

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buy a niche. We kept the
urn that contained his ashes in the house.

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While it was possible to take him
to a special place. My friend

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Arthur was with me the whole time. Also the rest of my friends were

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with me except shui. As soon
as I could, I went to see

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him. He was smiling. When
I told him what had happened to me,

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he started clapping like crazy. I
didn' t understand your irreverent behavior.

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When he calmed down, he told
me that I had had, effect,

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ritual my wish had been granted.
Now I had to pay the white

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girl because she didn' t give
a favor for free. I had to

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make him an altar and give him
offerings often, because otherwise she wouldn'

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t leave me alone until the favor
with me or with the soul of a

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loved one was collected. I held
back from beating Shui because he knew what

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he was capable of. I walked
away from him with the idea of never

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looking for him again. For several
days I did not do what Shui told

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me, but every day that entity
became present. More often he appeared at

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night in the darkness, he manifested
himself in different ways with his presence,

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with some murmur or leaving some objects
to fall. I' ll tolerate and

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endure until I can. But when
one of my brothers woke up screaming,

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my mother and I ran to see
what was happening to him. My crying

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brother told us that he had seen
a dark being watching him sleeping. I

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already had several days that I had
nightmares about that monster, but now I

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had seen it. He began to
weep uncompromisingly as my mother embraced him.

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He stared at me to see what
I was saying and how we would solve

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the problem. Deep down, I
think my mom felt that I had the

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answer, but she didn' t
ask me anything as soon as it dawned.

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I went to buy a small figure
of the Holy Death his candlesticks,

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as well as fruit and sweets.
I put it inside my closet so my

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mom and my brothers wouldn' t
see it. It wasn' t exactly

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that I believed in her that I
had faith in her or. I'

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d like to ask you a favor. Rather, I began to fear that

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I would harm another of my relatives. When I set up the altar with

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the offerings. The demonstrations apparently ended, the Holy Death was happy. However,

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sometimes sporadic. I realize your presence, because I see a shadow hiding

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in the darkness, but as long
as you keep your altar worthy, it

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disappears again. It was like he
was trying to show up to make me

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realize that he' s still present. I don' t know how or

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how long I have to do it. I didn' t want to ask

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Shui anymore. Since my father'
s death happened to me, I never

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met my usual friends again. Most
of all, I walked away from Shui

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with Arthur. I still have a
friendly relationship, a little out of the

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way, because he kept getting together
with the same people. Instead, I

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went into full work on the tianguis
and completely left the narcotics. Now I

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' ve got my own job.
It' s not so much the income

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I get, but it' s
enough to support my family' s expenses.

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I don' t know exactly what
really happened that night when I was

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present at the shui ritual, in
the children' s cemetery. I also

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couldn' t tell if my father
died of natural death or was the cause

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of it. The only good thing
about it was that my dad' s

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death served to change our lives completely. Story written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas