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Long hair. This is a real
story. My brothers and I remember her

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perhaps more than we would like.
It happened when I was about seven years

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old, my sister one year older
than me and my brother one year younger.

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Together with our mother, we were
constantly moving. My mom was a

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single mom and she could barely afford
the rent, so we were always looking

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for cheaper places to survive in the
city. We went through eight different places

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during that period. But the worst
experience for me was in that neighborhood we

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moved to. It was a building
that looked very old, so I found

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out later, it was something that
was built in times of the porphyriate.

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The apartment we rented was on the
second floor, while I was helping mom

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get the most of our stuff into
the house, I saw something strange.

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At first I didn' t think
it was weird. The window of the

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neighboring department seemed to be completely dark, but as I looked closer, I

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realized that it was not the darkness
that I saw, but a curtain so

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black that I did not let the
light pass. And at one point I

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saw those curtains slowly opening revealing only
hair, a long black hair that seemed

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to stick to the glass. It
was strange, but I decided not to

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think too much about it and I
was still helping my mom. The three

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of us shared the same room,
which didn' t bother us much,

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as it almost always was. And
while we were trying to divide the room

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as justly as possible something happened.
We were arguing about the place near the

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window, when we heard a strong
blow that seemed to come from the neighboring

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department, although we were used to
noisy neighbors. This blow was so strong

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that it caused all the walls of
our room to rumble. None of us

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meant anything, since we were already
used to different types of people and places.

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Because of how often we moved,
we simply thought that the person on

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the other side of the wall was
probably upset by the noise we made and

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that' s why he had hit
her as a warning or something like that.

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During the first week we realized something
more strange. Although the hit on

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the wall was never repeated. We
began to notice that a lot of hair

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appeared throughout the house. At first
they were just strands here and there,

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but then we found whole balls of
hair or large amounts under the beds.

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Every time we cleaned, the strange
thing was that the hair was extremely long

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and very black. In short,
it could not belong to any of us.

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Mom had very short hair and even
though my sister had it long,

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it was from a clear coffee,
so it was impossible for all that hair

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loss to be out of her.
This started to be very strange, both

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for Mom and for us. But
by not being able to find a logical

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explanation, we were simply cleaning everything
up. Even Mom made a rule that

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we couldn' t open any windows, that she didn' t have a

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mosquito net and that we should never
leave the door open. I remember that

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during our first months on the spot
we never saw much movement in the apartment

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next door. In fact, we
didn' t even see anyone get out

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of there. If it weren'
t for the occasional noises we were hearing,

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we might have thought it was empty
There was a restaurant that, if

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one of its waitresses didn' t
arrive, called more mom to cover those

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shifts. It was always at night
and on one occasion when Mom took a

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couple of night shifts, we had
become friends with some children who lived at

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the end of the street, whose
father also worked as a watchman and they

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invited us to watch a movie at
home. So, knowing that Mom wouldn

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' t be back until late,
we accepted by the time we got back

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to the Neighborhood, it was about
eleven o' clock at night, we

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were walking quietly to our apartment to
go to bed before Mom came back.

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That' s when we saw the
person who lived next to us. She

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was too old, she looked at
her bent posture and also because she used

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a walking stick. But that wasn' t the strange thing. The strange

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thing was that he had a black
hair, too black considering his advanced age.

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It was more than reasonable for him
to have hair and ern of gray

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hair, but this was not the
case. I really don' t know

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if he painted his hair or anything
like that, but at that point I

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could only think that that hair didn' t seem to be from that body.

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But, if that were not enough, that hair was not normal either.

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It was too long. She had
about thirty centimeters being dragged down the

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floor as she climbed the stairs,
although this one did not look dirty,

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but quite the opposite. He was
as clean and silky as the rest.

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In case this entire description is not
enough, both my brothers and I can

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make it true that that old woman
was coming out cold. While we were

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walking to our house down the street, we felt nothing cold, but barely

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looking at it we could feel our
whole body starting to cool down. With

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only his presence, we were petrified
at the foot of the ladder. None

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of us had the courage to start
climbing, at least not until that old

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lady was no longer there. Finally, when the old lady was upstairs,

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she turned down. Looking at us
after several months, we were able to

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see his face, although it was
a little covered. So much hair that

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he had yet we could clearly see
his eyes of a rather strange color.

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Grises looked at all three of us
for a couple of seconds before turning back

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and moving on. We didn'
t dare climb the stairs until we heard

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his apartment door close somehow. I
have always felt somewhat responsible for what happened,

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although I was just a child and
at that age there is little sense

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of congruence. I just feel like
I had to act differently. Perhaps if

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I had, the story would have
taken a completely different course, since the

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next morning I was the one who
was responsible for spreading the news to all

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the children in the neighborhood, and
this situation quickly spread. Suddenly. All

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the children nearby knew it and very
soon many of them challenged themselves to peek

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through the windows of the so-
called Witch, although none of the brave

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ones who dared to do so actually
managed to see absolutely nothing. As I

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said before, the windows were covered
by thick black curtains that did not allow

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any kind of natural light to pass
into the Women' s department. I

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remember for several weeks. The issue
of the witch between me and my friends

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was so recurring that it was practically
spoken daily. We were wondering what kind

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of curses she could throw or whether
she was responsible for any missing pet posters

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we saw stuck anywhere on the street. And to be completely honest, I

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loved all the attention I was getting. I told them how much of her

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hair appeared in my house almost every
day, and that made everyone want to

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go to my house to check for
themselves. I even started getting a weight

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to get in. Everything got out
of control very quickly and without realizing it.

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There were a lot of kids there
to make jokes about that witch.

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At first, the jokes were too
innocent. They consisted of walking as close

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to their apartment as possible and shouting
the word witch only to then rush out

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of there and hide in my apartment. But the jokes didn' t end

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there. They gradually climbed, seeing
that no one came out when they said

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those words, we started knocking on
the door first once or twice just to

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run out immediately as when we did
that, we hid behind huge pots and

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sometimes, if we could see from
a safe distance, as that woman opened

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the door, but never could see
anyone. That only made all the children

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confirm my story of the witch,
since now they had seen her with her

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sad eyes and long hair, which, clearly in our childish mind, was

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indicative of that woman being a witch. I remember clearly that when the knocks

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were no longer enough for us,
we started throwing stones at her every time

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that woman looked out the door.
They weren' t big stones, they

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were just little stones we threw at
her while we called her a witch.

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And although I would like to say
that I never participated in those things,

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the reality is that I was the
one who usually encouraged everyone, as for

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example, on one occasion I had
seen a movie in which the witch was

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melted with a little water, and
this seemed like a great idea I remember

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that, with the help of my
neighbor, who had a water gun,

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I proposed this wonderful IDEA to her. My sister told me that I shouldn

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' t do that, that it
wasn' t right, but I didn

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' t listen to any of her
advice and followed my plan. By that

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time, almost none of the children
dared to knock on the door, as

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that old woman had begun to open
almost instantly that our fists were knocking on

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her door and she had even seen
some people walk away and, in addition

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to shouting at them, some curses
said that the old woman had gone to

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talk to her mothers. After that, I wanted to carry out my plan

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at all costs. I convinced my
little brother that he was the one to

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touch and then to run away so
that in this way he could wet the

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witch and get rid of her evil
once and for all. At first,

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my little brother didn' t want
to do it, but after a while

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I managed to convince him and we
started carrying out the plan. While I

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was hiding behind some pots waiting for
my brother to do his part, my

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sister was next to me reminding me
that it would be best not to do

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anything, but it was too late. My little brother knocked on the door

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and, to his misfortune, barely
gave the first knock that woman opened the

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door in one blow, as if
she were already waiting for that. At

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that time, all the children we
were looking at panicked, as that long

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- haired woman took my brother from
her arm without letting go and shook him

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very abruptly. Quickly arming myself with
false courage, I took that water gun

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and started spraying the old lady'
s face. He released my brother and

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he almost immediately entered the apartment.
For the first time, that woman saw

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exactly the face of the three of
us, who had been making life impossible

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for several weeks now. The three
of us feel so scared that we'

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re already out playing all day.
We just stayed locked in our room,

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thinking that the witch would tell our
mother what we did to her or worse,

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like she could throw some curse at
us. That woman' s reprisals

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were much worse. I will never
forget that during that night, when I

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finally managed to completely fall asleep,
I began to dream something very strange.

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I was running in some kind of
maze, but that wasn' t the

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scariest thing in the dream. The
scariest thing was that I was running because

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a giant ball of black hair was
behind me and, besides, I could

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hear as if a woman' s
whispers came out and were from inside all

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that tangle of hair. As much
as I was trying to run away,

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it just wasn' t possible at
some point. I was totally cornered in

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the maze and suddenly, as that
ball of hair came closer and closer,

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I could see between this round gray
eyes staring at me, I knew that

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it did catch me. I'
d just become part of that hairball I

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was about to get caught. When
I finally managed to wake up my nightmare,

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I was just about to start,
as I quickly realized that what I

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had woken up had not been the
dream. In itself I was listening to

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noises and those noises were nothing but
my younger brother, who was coughing in

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a really desperate way, as if
he was completely short of air. I

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wanted to go ask my mother for
help, but at that time I realized

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it wasn' t even midnight yet. My mother had not yet returned from

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her night shift. I approached my
brother to see what was happening to him.

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My sister said she might be choking
with her own saliva, but the

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reality was much scarier. When we
turned on the light, we could see

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that my brother had a mouth full
of hair, long black hair that seemed

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to be in his throat. As
much as we started throwing to get them

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out. It just came out more
and more. It took about two minutes

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to get all the hair out of
his mouth. It was really too gross

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to see the huge amount of hair
inside him. We breathed relieved, but

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seconds later we realized that this tangle
of hair was starting to move. It

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was almost as if he had his
own life and he started rolling out of

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the room. Although I have memories
of how I went to check to see

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where I was going, I only
managed to see how it slipped under the

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door. I didn' t dare
open the door to check any more.

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And after that day, the hair
problem got worse. While hair could become

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a problem before all that madness broke
loose, it was just lying in some

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parts of the house. Ever since
that long- haired old lady had seen

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us. Now the hair was literally
everywhere. Every thing that came into our

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house automatically had to have hair.
It didn' t matter if they were

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closed packages like cereal or frying.
You could literally finish buying them at the

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store and if you went into the
house and opened them, you could see

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too much hair inside them entangled.
Among your food, all your hair was

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exactly the same, long and black
also in the shower, while you rinsed

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your head, you could feel like
between your fingers, you started to have

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hair that clearly couldn' t be
yours. I have a clear memory of

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how. While my mother didn'
t want to worry us, she was

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also fully aware that that wasn'
t normal. I have memories of several

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priests blessing our house and people making
clean. Absolutely none of that served.

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I have always believed that, in
addition to never telling my mother directly what

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had happened, the reason we didn' t move quickly was because of economic

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reason and also because of the simple
fact that nothing ever happened to my mother.

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Particularly serious only our house that was
getting full of hair. In the

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case of my brothers and I,
the situation was completely different. We could

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wake up at midnight being suffocated because
our hair was getting into our mouths or

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noses That was something that started to
happen so often that it became relatively normal

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to fix. On another occasion,
while I was sleeping, I heard between

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dreams how my younger brother was screaming
at the opening of his eyes, those

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screams kept ringing, so when I
turned both I and my sister looked horrified

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as I was stuck to the wall
tied with hair. It was like the

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hair was trying to pull him into
the other apartment. At the same time

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as we heard that macabre laughter from
a woman on the other side. All

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this happened when our mother had the
night shifts, so she really never found

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out what was going on. I
remember we even tried to slip a little

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paper under the door of the Witch' s house to ask her for an

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apology. This was of no use, as these events continued to take place.

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Eventually, our mother couldn' t
cope with the fact that so much

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hair appeared in the house for no
specific reason, and she got another place

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to move us. And even though
until a year ago he managed to get

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a job stable enough that we could
finally stay in a house. Our mother

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doesn' t know everything we'
ve been through in that neighborhood. Only

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she tells the story as something very
strange that happened there, always referring to

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the hair. But none of us
ever wanted to tell him what we did.

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Story written and adapted by Lisa Hernández