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Have you ever thought about…?

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Who is she? What does she do?
Where does she come from?

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Does she want to introduce me to her daughter?

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When will she meet my son?

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Two adults, two kids...

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...no serious conversations.
Two hands that never touch in public.

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Are you attending Monday’s meeting?

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That teacher, the one who pulled that kid Aliaga’s ear,
is all over the group chat now.

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How long have we been doing this?  Four, five months?

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In one week it’s going to be 5 months.

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Why?

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Are you bored already?

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We have a good time together, a great time…

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We have fun and then we part ways,

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at what time could I get bored,
if we never say anything to each other?

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What if... we go together to Monday’s meeting?

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Hey… I don’t wanna be just a good fuck.

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Five months of good fucking.

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Do you really think we should be making plans with the kids?

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Let’s do something the four of us.

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Let’s go out, let’s start planning things together.
Why not?

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We have never asked each other about our past.

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How do you know I haven’t done my own inquiries

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Have you?

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No...

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Sometimes it’s better not to know, isn’t it?

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Lucía’s dad used to hit me.

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It took me 5 years to accept it...

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and realize that it was not
my fault and that I had to stop it.

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It wasn’t an on-going thing, but when it happened…

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...it was very, very fucked up.

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And he knew where and how to hit me, so it didn’t show.

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Afterwards, he always apologized and made me feel
bad for having come to “that”…

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“That”

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as if I had something to do with that...

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...as if I… caused “that”.

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One day Lucía saw everything,

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and in that moment I realized that a little girl can’t grow up
witnessing that and thinking that it’s something normal.

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A girl shouldn’t grow up watching her mom or any other woman
being dragged from her hair across the floor.

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My father also used to hit my mother and I didn’t remember
until that moment when I saw myself in Lucía.

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I was supposed to be sleeping,

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but I was on the second floor,
I looked up the stairs and heard him, I heard it all.

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I heard my father arriving home drunk one night.

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I heard him.

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I heard my mom crying because my dad had
slapped her on the face for no reason,

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because he was drunk and his friends told him that they saw her
talking to the man in the buttons store…

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and I heard it all, I heard my dad laughing
while my mom was explaining that...

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...this man was helping her to find buttons for his shirt,

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but he was insisting that men don’t do favors
unless a woman opens her legs.

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I heard my dad pulling out his gun

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telling my mom to get on all fours and that he was
going to do her the favor of not killing her,

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and I heard how she had to give in.

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I didn’t understand anything, up to that moment I didn’t understand...

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and I believe neither did my mom because
we have never spoken about it…

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And I didn’t remember it until that moment when I saw,

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I saw my daughter looking, from under the table,
at her dad pulling me by the hair,

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slapping me and telling me to shut up because
the girl was going to hear us.

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The next day, after having breakfast the 3 of us,

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he said goodbye fondly before going to work…

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I packed our things and left
the house with my daughter.

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I don’t know where I got the courage from, but I did it.

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I called my sister, she picked us up and we left.

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I don’t know if I’m healed deep inside…

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and sometimes I wonder what would have happened
if my mom had taken me out of there…

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What I do know is that Lucía will have a normal life.