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Welcome to true scary story. When
simple childhood curiosity got the best of her,

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Margharita started experiencing strange manifestations of entities. But there was one in particular

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that kept coming back. Who wasn't
Why were they there? My name is

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Edmund, and here is Margharita's true
scary story. Around the mid seventies,

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we lived in a neighborhood called Pilsen
in Chicago. One of my aunts lived

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across the street. Why you still
love to go over there to be with

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my cousins. The houses and Pilsen
are really big, old structures. It

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was an old, predominantly immigrant neighborhood, but the houses of Victorian style.

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They have a big living room,
big dining rooms, small bedrooms, big

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kitchens, a lot of hidden closets
and little places where you can hide,

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play hide and go seek. They
had little cross spaces in some of the

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closets. Those were our favorite places
to play. In my cousin's house,

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there was a closet that had little
stairs. Inside the little stairs was another

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little cross space. We used to
go in there and talk about things that

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kids talk about, but you can
hear things that were going on in the

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other rooms. One time, me
and my cousins were playing in there and

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we heard my uncle. My aunts
did not like him. They called him

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a blue, a bad man of
which my aunt had been married and left

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her husband to go with this uncle. They all said that she had practiced

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witchcraft on her to get her to
go with him. That was unheard of

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at that time for someone to leave
their first husband and to go with someone

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else. And he was much much
older than my aunt, much older.

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Most of my aunts were afraid of
him. My uncle, she was calling

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out two things. He was saying
bad words, calling for revenge, and

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we got scared. My cousins were
telling me she sometimes does that when he

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gets angry at people who are not
supposed to go into his room or or

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talk to him. We heard him
stop and walk out of the room.

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I went into his womb, into
his closet. We found a little box,

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a little black box. Inside of
it were little bottles of oils hair

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crossed. As he caught us looking
in there, he yelled at his kids,

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what are you doing in here?
And you're never supposed to come in

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here. I got really scared,
and he told me to go home.

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I went home. I was really
scared. My mom asked me, what

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happened? What did you do over
there? Because my aunt called her and

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said that I had been misbehaving not
to come back. My mom really reprimanded

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me very much. I was very
sorry. She told me to apologize to

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my aunt and uncle, which I
did. I couldn't get out of my

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mind the stuff that happened with the
closet and the things that I found.

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I was sitting with my dad in
in the kitchen. I used to wait

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for my dad to get home to
eat with him. My dad was a

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very religious man. He was always
in the church. He was a deacon.

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Every time I had a problem at
school or anything, I would always

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see him reading his Bible and he
would always say, there's a story in

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the Bible about that about bullying.
If I had a problem with my brother,

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he would say the story of Joseph
he had a problem with his brother.

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He was always talking to me about
the Bible. I told him what

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happened. She was furious, very
upset. He dropped his plate of free

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holess, grabbed me from my hand
and started opening the door to go across

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the street and grabbed me and didn't
say a word. My dad knocked on

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their door. He confronted my uncle. He said, I don't ever want

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you to expose my daughter to any
of them that kind of stuff. You

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shouldn't do that to your children either. He looked at me and didn't say

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anything. My dad just left and
he said, you don't ever have to

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be afraid to tell me anything like
that again. After that happened, one

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day I was home sick from school. I heard the dartbell ring. This

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happened a couple of weeks later.
I opened the door. It was my

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uncle, which ten o'clock in the
morning. My aunt wasn't with him.

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I didn't know why he was there. I told my mom, my uncle's

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here. She was surprised also.
She said, okay, let him in.

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She told me to keep him in
the living room. So I just

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stayed there with him. I didn't
talk to him and put my head down.

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He said, come here. I
didn't want to go to him,

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so my mom called him to have
some coffee in the kitchen, and she

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laughed right away. I don't know
what he came to tell my mother that

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day. Whatever it was, it
scared my mom. That same night,

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I went to sleep, I shared
a room with my little brother. Something

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that caught my attention. I saw
a light coming in through the corner of

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my bedroom. As I looked up, I saw a man. He had

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an old chauffeur kind of uniform on, and he had dark glasses on.

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His skin was really pale. I
could just see his hand. His hand

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had a black ring on it.
I could see the buttons of his jacket.

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He was looking at me. His
face was so pale, his lips

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were blackish. He looked at me, and he had the dark glasses.

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I could see she was looking straight
at me. He just stayed there,

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staring, peeking. I just froze, and I tried to pretend that it

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was a dream. I know I
saw him. I kept closing my eyes

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and opening the room again. He
was still there, he pointing at me

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and nodding yes. I let out
a scream and called from my mom.

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My mom came into the room and
said, what's going on. I said,

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I saw this man. He'said,
oh, you're just dreaming. Don't

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worry. You did something you shouldn't
have done, and now you're feeling bad.

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That's why you can't sleep. She
stayed with me, and she prayed

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with me. I went to sleep
when she was next to me. I

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was very rattled for the next few
days. Another night, I was asleep,

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I heard a dump right in front
of my bed, a big thump.

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I opened my eyes and I saw
like a cane that looked like a

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rain. Came a cane that makes
the sound of rain. It was being

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held by a woman in a dark
dress. There was a little girl with

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her that had sunken eyes. She
had blondish hair. The little girl was

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so sad. She was being held
by the wrist by this woman. The

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other hand she had on caine.
She looked at me and she dumped again,

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real hard on the floor. I
knew she wanted me to get up.

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She was staring down at me.
I didn't know what to do.

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I was frozen. She dumped again. I knew that I had to get

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up. I sat up in my
bed, and she moved out of my

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way towards the door to go out
into the dining room. I looked at

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her. She looked back at me, like, are you coming. I

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got up. I started to follow
them into the living room. I don't

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know why I started to follow them. I know I had to. I

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knew I did. I walked into
the parlor what would look like a parlor.

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The whole living room was different.
We had a fireplace, a real

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fireplace in the home. My mom
always put a chair there because the cold

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air would come into the house from
the chimney. The chair wasn't there.

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There was a fire actually going in
the fireplace. There were all these people

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sitting in the living room looking at
me. There was that man. She

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was dressed in that same chauffeur outfit, with his cap on, the dark

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glasses. He started walking towards me. I saw the room. I was

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just amazed at the room. The
furniture was different, though, the curtains,

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everything was different, except that there
was a picture of my mom and

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dad. I looked at it was
my mom and Dad's wedding pictures, a

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black and white picture, and as
I looked at it, it crashed down

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on the floor. Everything stopped and
I was standing in that dark living room.

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I was weeping and wailing. This
time, my dad came into the

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room. I was like, what
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I said, Dad, and I
explained to him what had just happened.

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He just told me that everything was
gonna be okay, nothing was gonna

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happen. He believed me. When
my mom came and said, I think

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she's just making things up, my
dad said, no, I do believe

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my daughter. Lead you alone.
I was crying and went back into the

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room. I couldn't get that out
of my mind. Reita story continues Right

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after this stay with us. Through
the weeks, the teachers started to send

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notes home to my parents saying what
was wrong with me? My grades were

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dropping. There was a lot of
arguing in the house. My mom and

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dad were fighting all the time.
One of the arguments started to stem up

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because my uncle would no longer let
my aunt come to visit our house,

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and I was not allowed to go
over there. I told one of my

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aunts what was going on, and
she came and talked to me, and

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she said, I know what's going
on. I know he's a brujo.

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What you have is something called sosto. He scared you. He scared you,

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and you can't be afraid of those
things. You can't give that power.

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You have to trust that all is
going to be okay. There is

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always a power bigger than anything bad. For everything that is bad. If

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you believe in bad, you have
to believe in good. She told me

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the next time that woman came or
anybody came into my room, to tell

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them to go away, that you
are not going with them, that you

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are protected. Do not allow them
to take him anywhere. The next time

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it happened a few days later,
I saw the man again. This time

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he put his hand out, like
you're coming with me. I said,

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no, I'm not going with you. I started to yell loud, no

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I'm not going. I thought I
was talking, but I wasn't if.

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I couldn't talk, but in my
mind, I was saying, I'm not

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going with you. I'm not going. I was terrified of him. He

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started to walk towards me. At
that time, my brother started to rumble

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in his in his sleep. I
moved from my bed to his side of

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the bed. I lied down next
to my brother and started to hug my

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brother, be close my eyes.
I said, I'm not going. I'm

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not going. I started hearing the
thumping from the woman. I couldn't look.

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I kept saying I'm not going.
It seemed endless, but it finally

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stopped. It stopped. I felt
like there was clean air. I felt

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it leave. I felt the chills, the darkness, the dampy smell,

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because it came with a musty kind
of smell, like wet dirt, but

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with garbage. It's a smell.
Can't ever forget the musky, dirty smell

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of earth. And it was gone. I didn't smell it anymore. Weeks

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later, the arguing between my parents
settled down, being started going back to

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normal in our house. They would
greet each other, they would start laughing

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together. We started being our regular
family again. Was at that time that

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my uncle and Anne decided to move
back to Puerto Rico. They decided they

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were going to pick up and take
the kids back to Puerto Rico. But

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before that happened, my aunt got
very sick. She had to be put

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in a home. She had a
series of strokes and my uncle left her

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to live in Puerto Rico. After
that, we heard stories about him joining

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some kind of church and getting arrested
for hurting children. Eventually, my aunt

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and him divorced. We heard nothing
from him again. My other cousins had

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runs with him. He died a
terrible death as well. He caught gangreen.

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He died in person for whatever it
was that he did in Puerto Rico.

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I can't say. I just know
it was something against a child in

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a church. He was accused and
fround guilty. In Puerto Rico, he

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was a chauffeur. But I think
it was another aspect of him because he

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was a chauffeur in Puerto Rico.
He used to drive a taxi or a

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drive people. I do know that
he used to work for a rich family

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in Puerto Rico, driving them around. I found that out much later,

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but that would make sense why I
saw him like that. None of them

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want to see him at the end. They're all good people to this day.

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Adarmed my cousins. They grew up
to be wonderful, wonderful people.

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They remembered their father was loved.
But not many of our other relative have

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agreed with that. My aunt tells
me how brave I was to be able

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to confront him. That's a lesson
I've learned. I have to always face

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my fears with courage. Years later, I would talk to my brother about

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this. I was telling him I
used to be really scared in that house.

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He said, oh, yeah,
the lady with the cane right,

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I'm like what, he goes,
Yeah, I remember when she used to

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come into our room and try to
take you away. And he said,

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why didn't you say anything? He
said, because I didn't want her to

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take me. I'd rather her try
to take you than to take me.

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He validated it for me. My
brother told me, no matter where I

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am, I will always protect you. My brother died in twenty two wing

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from COVID. I still feel him
around sometimes when I'm scared or feeling lonely,

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I'll feel his presence around him and
don't know that that is close.

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I also learned now that there are
some things that are always goed here and

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in the afterlife, you can embrace
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