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I stood next to my father.
After my mother died, he hired Lucia

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a neighbor who lived alone and was
close to my mother to take care of

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me. While he was working.
One day a letter came to the house.

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It caught my attention because of its
dark color. The envelope was black

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and the letters were white. Lucia
received it and left it on the table.

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When my father returned from work,
he opened the envelope and read the

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letter. For several times he was
thoughtful. I could tell you smiled at

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reading it, so I assumed it
was good news right away. He sat

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next to me. The sender of
that letter was his father' s.

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When I said these words, I
asked him about his father I had never

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met him. I always thought he
was dead, but he told me that

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he had not just a few days
to die and it was necessary to go

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that place for reading the will.
After five days of my father' s

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absence, he arrived in a rental
car. As soon as I saw him

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I ran to hug him without needing
to ask him what had happened on his

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journey. He told me that he
had received a very large inheritance from his

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father. Among the goods he left
him was a house, a very nice

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and very large house. He wanted
us to move in there. I didn

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' t like the idea of going
away from my surroundings with all the memories

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I had of my mother, but
my dad was determined. He made the

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necessary preparations to leave as Lucia lived
alone. He agreed to go with us

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from that day on, my dad' s character changed. He seemed very

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excited about leaving town. The journey
was long and heavy. I was hoping

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the house would be in a closer
place, but it wasn' t.

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After several hours we arrived in a
very nice village. When I saw him,

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I thought it wasn' t all
wrong. I loved the idea of

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living in that town, but the
car didn' t stop. He went

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along the main avenue. We left
the village and after a few minutes in

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the distance I saw a large construction, a white painted house. My father

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signaled me with his finger to tell
me that was the house we were going

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to live in. I didn'
t love the idea of being this far

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from the village. That' s
why I reproached my dad had told me

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it was a better place and that
wasn' t. My dad was excited

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to the point that he felt very
happy like he had never seen him before.

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He walked from one room to the
other, showing me the huge windows,

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the kitchen with decorated ceramic tile finishes. I didn' t like the

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place. From the very first moment. The house was very big and beautiful.

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I had a feeling there was someone
else inside. My dad noticed that

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he was rubbing my arms, so
he immediately went to close the window,

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as all the fresh air was pouring
through him. Lucia was also not very

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CONTENT she had the same feeling that
I preferred not to make any comments.

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She just watched and when I turned
her to see her, she nodded as

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I felt. I saw the pictures
in the living room. There was a

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thin- looking gentleman with a short
beard and carefully combed hair. I thought

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that might be the grandfather I never
met. Next to her was a beautiful,

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young woman in an intense red dress. My dad came down from the

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upstairs rooms. I asked him if
he knew who those two people were.

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He told me the man in black
suit was his father. Instead, the

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woman in red didn' t know
who she was. He was probably his

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second wife, as he separated from
his mother when he was very young and

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never saw him again. My father
was the only son my grandmother had after

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many years of separation. My grandmother
remarried. That' s when he had

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my uncles and my aunts as soon
as I heard about it. It was

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one of the first surprises I met
the first night we spent at the house.

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I couldn' t sleep I tried
without getting any results, I preferred

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to get up and look at the
small balcony I had in my room.

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The land was so vast that there
was still a great space behind it.

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In the distance I could see the
fences that delimited with the neighboring house,

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but this one was distant. The
Church was closer, which, according to

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my father, was abandoned because almost
no one in the village wanted to walk

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so much to go to Mass.
While watching the church still keeping its large

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bell with its large wooden gate.
I saw someone open it and go into

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the temple. I was careful for
a while without seeing them leave the church.

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For a moment I thought it was
all about my imagination, because from

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where I was it was difficult to
see clearly if anyone was in the temple.

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The sky became cloudy and the lightnings
announced the next storm. An icy

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air started I decided to go in
and close the window. The rain immediately

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began to hit the window that had
just closed. I started to hear some

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sort of grunt outside the house.
Then a sound I couldn' t identify

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was heard outside. I wanted to
see what it was about, but the

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heavy rain didn' t let me. I was falling asleep when I heard

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someone was outside my room. Every
step I took to my father or Lucia

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it was possible to hear it because
the pain of the floor gave them away

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I didn' t know when I
fell asleep. I woke up very late.

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Lucia told me that she listened to
me when I was snooping around at

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night and also when I lay next
to her. It was freezing. I

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told him I didn' t leave
my room at any time. I was

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awake because I didn' t get
used to the new place. I also

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heard the steps, but I thought
it was about my father or you.

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Lucia changed her expression by asking who
was the person who was in her bed.

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He thought it was a woman because
of her thin complexion. At that

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moment, Lucia began to tremble in
fear. He was always a very nervous

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and sensitive person, so his body
was filled with chills. Lucia got scared

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out of the kitchen looking for my
dad who was collecting wood to set the

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fireplace. A few minutes later they
both came in asking me questions. We

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were trying to give a logical explanation
of what happened the night before, but

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we didn' t find it.
We left the matter unresolved and finally,

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I went out for a walk around
the house. I was hoping to find

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a neighbor I could talk to,
maybe a local person could explain to me

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what was going on. Inside the
house. I came to the Church.

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Forgotten, I went in out of
curiosity to know if it was possible for

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someone to enter through the front door
and exit through a back door, but

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I did not find another door.
The windows were too high. To think

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someone went out the window was almost
impossible. I sat on a bench full

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of dust. I' ve been
watching the remains of the remaining objects for

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a while. The altar was made
of stone. I approached that part of

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the church. I was surprised to
see without a chance at the sacred table.

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What I discovered left me bewildered.
There were inscriptions on her that I

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didn' t understand. It seemed
that with a pointed object they had made

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engravings. I didn' t think
it was vandalism or anything like that.

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On the contrary, it was a
language I did not know made by someone

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who knew its meaning. I heard
voices and went to hide behind a pillar

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I saw several young people come in
playing and talking, sit on one of

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the steps and start smoking. His
talks were about school stuff. After a

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few minutes they left. When I
felt safe I left my hiding place to

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leave the place. I was headed
for the exit. When I saw on

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the corner of the altar a mooring
of dried herbs burned with a muddy red

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substance, it looked like fresh blood. I no longer wanted to stay,

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but before I left, clearly ho
today and as if some heavy object fell.

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I did not imagine it because when
I turned I saw the cloud of

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dust that rose as I left the
temple with the light of day, all

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my fear went on walking looking for
signs of something that would serve me to

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find explanations. I didn' t
like what I saw behind the church there

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were several crosses. It looked like
they used it as a cemetery, too.

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I went back to the house that
from the hill I was on looked

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very pretty. I still couldn'
t understand how my father was given that

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inheritance or how my supposed grandfather had
found us so many years and nobody told

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me about him, not even my
grandmother, with whom I had a very

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good relationship. It was as if
they wanted to erase him completely from the

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family. Before I entered my house, I saw through the fence two heads

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prowling from among the stones. As
soon as they saw me, they crouched.

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I went to them the girl with
like grief. He told me that

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they were curious to know who had
gone to live in the house, the

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one that had been abandoned for a
long time. I invited them over to

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the garden. More than a friendship, I was interested in being told something

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important about the place. I went
straight and asked them what they knew about

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the house. They both turned to
see before telling me the truth. The

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first to speak was the girl named
Mary. She told me that in that

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house lived the one that was my
grandfather, with a very young and beautiful

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woman. I immediately thought of the
woman in the painting. They never knew

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where she was. Don José was
known all along. He was always a

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kind and lonely man, good boss. His business was the purchase and sale

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of recesses. One day, during
the patron saintly festivities, many people came

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from nearby villages. She came from
an unknown village. He went straight after

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Don José, who was fascinated by
that of his beauty. Within a few

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months they got married, but after
she entered the estate, the lord began

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to change. Just as his health
was affected and his wealth was less,

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as dead prayers often appeared. The
workers said without a trace of blood,

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but it was never really known if
it was true. Soon Don José died

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and the woman simply disappeared. He
was never seen again. He' ll

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probably be looking for another man to
take away his wealth. I invited my

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new friends over to the house to
keep telling me things about that woman.

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We sat in the room while Mary
was checking every object she found suddenly said

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that she was the woman in the
painting in red dress. She was the

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witch who hurt my grandfather. The
best thing was to get that painting out

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of there. He said that at
night he got out of there and went

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all over the house. What Mary
said seemed crazy, because George, the

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other boy, told her to shut
up, but Mary said it was true.

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She was a witch, a horrible
witch. Jorge and Maria were leaving.

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When my father came in, they
hurried away. My dad looked happy

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different. I would say that even
happy what I had never seen in him

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before, he spoke enthusiastically of everything
he was going to do, of the

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workers he was going to hire and
an infinity of plans he had to stay

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in that place, but I did
not see myself living there. I didn

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' t mean it. I went
back to see Lucia and I think she

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also shared my point of view,
because she was still terrified. I noticed

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it in the movement of his hands. That' s what happened when she

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was so nervous. She kept up
all the time a movement she had no

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control over, like a tick.
While my dad was talking, she denied

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it with a movement of her head. I didn' t want to take

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away his enthusiasm. I' d
better go to my room and try to

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think about what I should do.
My dad was already hypnotized by the place

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and that wasn' t good.
In the afternoon I asked my father to

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take me to town. I wanted
to get to know a little bit about

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the place and investigate with other people
about what was said about the house.

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I didn' t want to keep
what Maria and Jorge said. As soon

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as my dad parked the car outside
the church, a group of people were

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leaving Mass. They all stared at
us, saw us with a certain suspicion

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and fear. My father went ahead
with those people and presented himself as the

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new owner of Don José' s
house. He was his son. We

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would see each other very often in
the village the group of men and women

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continued to see him with a certain
distrust but my dad I don' t

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think he even noticed anything. On
the contrary, his happiness was not over.

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To avoid doubting my perceptions, I
asked Lucia if she also realized what

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was going on with those people and
my father’ s strange attitude. He

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was so fascinated with the place that
he didn' t realize anything. Lucia

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replied that my dad was very strange
since he received that letter, he was

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no longer himself and worse, when
they arrived at the house, very pretty,

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very big and luxurious, but he
kept something inside that he did not

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like and what to say of the
night before that it was surely the spirit

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of a dead man who slept with
her. If things went on like this,

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very much to his regret he was
going to return to the city.

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He didn' t want to do
it and leave us because we had become

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his family, but live in fear. That wasn' t fair. As

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the car went up the hill,
I could see in the distance a woman

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walking very close to the church,
her figure was seen in the distance,

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her hair was long, she was
tall and thin, extremely thin. Then

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it was lost among the trees.
My father didn' t even notice his

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presence. At night. Lucia came
up with me. He told me that

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he could sleep in my room or
that I could sleep in his room because

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he didn' t feel safe anymore. Before ten o' clock at night,

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my dad and Lucia went to rest
in their rooms. I stayed up

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in the living room with just one
candlestick. Everything was in perfect calm until

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it was twelve o' clock at
night. Again I began to hear that

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someone was walking on the wooden floor
I clearly heard some heels. I didn

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' t try to see who it
was. I only noticed when a shadow

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slid down the stairs. It was
dark when I picked up the candlestick to

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

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kept listening until I heard the gnashing
of a door and when they closed it

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at the first thing I thought was
Lucia. I went immediately to his room.

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I opened it carefully so I wouldn' t wake her, but she

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was standing. As soon as he
saw me, he asked me if I

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had been the one with the steps
in the hallway. I said no and

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that' s why I came up. I ran to my dad' s

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room. I tried to open his
door, but it was locked I hit

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him hard. On several occasions she
did not open and did not respond to

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my call Lucia. He told me
there was a set of keys hanging inside

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a metal ring in the kitchen.
I ran down the stairs. I went

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up with the keys and I didn' t know which one belonged to that

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door. I tried several times until
the door opened. She was my father

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deeply asleep. There was no one
with him, but he looked in a

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drowsiness from which I could not wake
him. I moved it several times without

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getting anything. I got the impression
he was high. I looked out his

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window and I could see the same
woman walking far away in a long dress.

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The next day, my father got
up very happy. I could say

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he was overjoyed and even started singing
and dancing with me. I didn'

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t mean anything to him anymore.
He seemed to be evading his reality.

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Lucia was very worried. I asked
him to calm down We were going to

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do something. I didn' t
know I went to the desperate room.

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I didn' t want to spend
another night in that house either because I

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felt strange and watched by someone.
At that moment I was looking at the

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picture of the woman. I yelled
at Lucia to come. Lucia came running

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asking what was happening to me.
I pointed him at the portrait. I

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couldn' t believe what the woman
in the painting saw. Now he had

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a black dress. Lucia quivering told
me it was true. That woman was

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still living in the house. She
was probably the one around at night.

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I went in search of my dad
I found him in the happy garden,

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I took him by the hand and
I took him in front of the painting.

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It didn' t matter much.
I asked him to see it again,

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but he didn' t understand what
I was saying, I explained the

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dress. He told me it was
my imagination. That couldn' t happen.

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It wasn' t possible. It
was impossible to do that, to

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understand that we no longer wanted to
be in that place. Neither me nor

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Lucia. My father was convinced to
stay in the house. I asked Lucia

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to take care of my dad,
I went for a walk so I could

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figure out what I was going to
do. Without realizing it, I headed

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for the church to be abandoned.
I sat there for a long time without

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knowing what to do about it.
I was determined not to spend another night

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in that house. I knew my
dad wouldn' t want to leave after

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a while of being there I went
out without any answers. I was already

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at the church entrance. When I
heard a strange noise like that of a

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bird carefully, I walked to the
altar part just under the consecration table.

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There was a bird tied to its
legs with dried herbs. The bird the

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minute he saw me wanted to walk
without getting it. I could hardly untie

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the thin wire they tied her with. As soon as he could, he

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flew away. When I got home, I found my dad different. It

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seemed that he had come out of
his state and was aware of what was

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going on. He even told me
it was best to leave the house.

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He knew nothing about caring, encouraging, or maintaining a farm. A few

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more days and we could leave again. I was my father again. At

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that time I related my dad'
s change to the tied bird I found

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in the church and that by releasing
the bird I also released my dad'

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s spirit I asked him to leave
that place immediately. Lucia also supported me.

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Both of you. We asked him
not to be there one more night.

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He thought about it, he doubted
it, but we convinced him.

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In no time. We got our
belongings in the car. We were already

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in. When we started hearing a
scary scream, it was a woman'

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s. My father was paralyzed,
from what we heard. I asked him

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to start the car and leave immediately, but he didn' t. It

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seemed like he was going back into
a hypnotic state right away. He completely

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changed his position, said we didn' t have to leave and went back

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into the house. Both Lucia and
I yelled at her not to do so,

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but she ignored our pleas. Of
course, Lucia and I never went

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back into the house. We walked
into town without knowing where to go.

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Lucia was carrying money. We settled
in a hotel that day. We went

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out for a long walk and we
were tired and we sat on a bench

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in the park without knowing what to
do. Mary and George saw us and

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came to us without telling them anything. They asked me if we' d

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seen her before. I just said
yes. She' s a witch.

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That' s what Jorge said and
very powerful. The best thing is that

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they don' t go back to
that house anymore, because even after he

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died, the lord of the house
continued to see movement in the place.

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She did not leave, but in
the village it is said that she is

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already dead and revives with the spirit
and blood of another man. I wasn

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' t surprised what Jorge said had
more than evidence. I wanted to rescue

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my dad without knowing how to do
it. We stayed in town for a

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few days trying to help my dad
without getting it I approached with a healer

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from the village. She did a
holy stick ritual. Just to see the

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smoke that changed from gray to an
intense black color. She told me she

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had used a powerful witchcraft. That
woman had crossed the threshold of death.

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It was very difficult to face.
The lady didn' t want to do

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the job, because that woman could
reverse the spell and use it against her,

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even with her family. We were
in town for two weeks where people

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were accepting us and trying to help, but there was nothing and no one

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who could do it. Disappointed,
we left for town on a Sunday morning.

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As the bus moved on. I
turned to see again that hacienda that

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retained a black witchcraft spell in which
my father stayed. I can almost assure

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you I was going to run the
same fate as Don José, my grandfather.

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Story written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas