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Subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss any stories. There are days when one dies without falling to the ground. One remains standing, breathing, but inside one has already turned to ash. That’s what happened to me on March 12, 1897.
I was 53 years old. My back was crooked from carrying so much weight, my hands were calloused from washing machines, cooking, milking, and planting. I had been married for 42 years and raised three children with the sweat of my brow and the milk from my breast.
And it was precisely Jacinto, the eldest, who threw me out of the house like an old dog. There was no argument, no shouting, just that cold voice, sharp as a poorly sharpened machete, saying something that still hurts when I remember it.
You can stay in this filthy shack way up on the hill. At least you’ll die under a roof. He said that to me, looking at me like I was trash. As if the years I spent getting up at dawn to cook for him, sew his clothes, and pray for his fever meant nothing.
His wife, Judith, stood in the corner of the room with her arms crossed, looking like someone who had made up her mind long ago. The other two children said nothing, their heads bowed, and I understood then that I had lost everything, not just the house.
I lost my place in the world. The next day, an old cart came to pick me up. Don Lupé, who did freight work, didn’t even look at me properly. He loaded my two worm-eaten wooden trunks, an iron pot that had belonged to my mother, a blanket that was more hole than cloth, and a bundle of clothes.
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