Hello…? My voice sounded strange, as if it wasn’t my own.

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The world bowed.

—So… all this time…?

—Here —she replied—. Alone.

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—And why didn’t he leave?

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Doña Lupita smiled sadly.

—Because if I leave…

They will know that I am still alive.

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-They?

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And then he said it.

The word that finally broke everything.