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I didn' t believe in the
existence of the devil. For me it

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was an unlikely fact to believe in
the great power I had. Perhaps it

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was a little paradoxical to say that
he believed in Christ and to deny the

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truth about evil. My parents professed
the Christian religion and the formation they gave

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us was according to their beliefs.
While I was a child, I performed

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all the rituals that I was taught. Deep down, I think I was

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always a rebel because I didn'
t like attending church. What I liked

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was going to Christian camps. It
was like having a vacation without our parents

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taking us to a nearby place in
the city that in turn was away from

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the noise. Usually, they did
it in a large house where there was

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a river, lake, or lagoon
nearby to take us during the recreational time

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to swim in the water. My
sister was the one who put the most

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attention in the meetings. On the
other hand, my brother Nacho and I

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were a little more zapatic. Maybe
it was because we were starting to get

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into adolescence and we started having another
set of tastes. I remember that I

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was fifteen and my brother was thirteen. When we went to summer camp,

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my sister also went, but she
was meeting with the other girls in the

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congregation. That summer of two thousand
and three was the first in which I

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began to have a different view of
the religion my parents professed and had instilled

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in us. During the camp.
I met another boy by the name of

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Daniel. He was my age.
It was the first time I saw him

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go to the Christian summer. As
soon as we met, we did good

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chemistry. Soon he trusted me and
told me about the problems he was experiencing

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with his parents. We both disagreed
with the Christian formation they gave us.

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Before concluding the camp, Daniel gave
me his phone number and address. We

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intended to keep seeing each other and
continue to chat our disagreements. For the

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last night, our guides made a
campfire very close to the lagoon. We

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all sit around the fire. One
of the girls took the initiative. He

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provided us with a blank sheet,
as well as a pencil to write.

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He asked us to split it in
two and in one half write what we

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learned during the camping week. He
gave us a few minutes so we could

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have enough time to reflect right away. He told us to put in the

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other half of the leaf what we
would like to learn, to know,

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to know whatever doubt or longing we
have. We could write it on the

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blank sheet. We had nothing to
worry about, because no one was going

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to see our leaves. After the
activity ended, the guide asked us to

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burn our leaves repeating amen. I
really don' t know what Nacho and

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Daniel put up, but when we
did that activity, the three of us

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turned around to see. While we
smiled, we threw our papers, we

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saw how they were consumed in the
fire. To conclude, the activity.

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We sang a praise and went to
rest. They gave us the opportunity to

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share experiences with our peers without revealing
so much when we were together, my

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brother Daniel and I asked them what
they had written. On the second sheet.

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The first to speak was Daniel saying
that he wanted to travel and know

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other places, as well as to
have many girlfriends, and began to laugh

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nacho. It was more correct.
He wrote that our family was healthy and

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we were always together. After I
heard what they had written, I felt

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a little embarrassed. I hesitated a
bit to make my comment. Daniel was

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the first to throw a pillow because
he saw I didn' t dare talk.

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Then my brother seconded him, leaving
aside, the shame I told them

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that I had written that I really
didn' t know if there was God

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and the demon who wanted to have
proof of his existence. Both Daniel and

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my brother remained silent at the time. I felt judged, but right away.

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They started laughing like what I wrote
was a joke. I really did

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it with the idea of knowing if
there was good and evil. We all

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take it as a mockery and keep
playing with the pillows. It was several

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days after we returned from the camp. The routine in the house was the

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same as always. My dad was
the one who left us in high school

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before he went to work. I
was taking my brother and I was taking

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my sister to my mom because she
was still in elementary school. Instead,

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my brother was in junior high and
I was in junior high. I was

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just about to finish it. On
one occasion we came from school, it

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occurred to me to go visit Daniel. I didn' t know anything about

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him anymore. So we went to
high school. I wasn' t very

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close to our Nacho was always the
quietest and most obedient to my parents.

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Every time I asked him to do
something wrong right away, he told me

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that what he planned to do was
not right. When I proposed to go

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to Daniel' s high school right
away, he said yes. He didn

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' t even give me any warnings. It was rather strange that he behaved

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that way to see nacho so excited
to break the rules. He was the

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one in the lead. It was
the first time I paid attention to the

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changes that had occurred in my brother. I didn' t get abnormal.

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I thought I was just going into
adolescence and I was also beginning to question

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a lot of things. I had
already told Daniel that we were going to

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visit him, so he was waiting
for us outside high school in a shaded

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tree. As soon as we saw
him, we ran to say hello.

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We walked together, chatting, catching
up. After a while of being with

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my friend, we said goodbye to
him and each of us took our course.

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On the way back to school,
Nacho continued to talk about everything and

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nothing. At the same time I
was excited to talk about games. When

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I got home, my mom was
already worried we weren' t getting there.

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I was always the one lying to
my parents. This time, Nacho

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took the lead by arguing a series
of lies that even I believed I no

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longer had to intervene because my mom
no longer asked. She picked up her

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belongings and left immediately for work.
That afternoon, my dad spoke to us

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on the phone to let us know
that he would stay at work for some

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time or extra time, so he
would arrive at night. He asked me

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to take care of my brothers and
if we were hungry, we could order

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a pizza. After finishing the assignment, I invited my brothers to watch a

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film. Nacho was in the room
listening to loud music. I asked him

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to turn the music down a bit
because he wouldn' t allow us to

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listen to television, but he kept
making a fuss all afternoon. We were

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already upset. My sister and I, hearing the keys enter the lock,

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we breathe relieved. My dad would
put order in the house. Similarly,

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my dad felt it was a lot
of fuss that my brother was making,

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so he immediately went up to his
room. I didn' t know what

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happened. I just got to hear
that they were arguing. Nacho was the

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one who raised his voice the most. My dad' s words were barely

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heard. It was so much my
brother' s anger that he ran down

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and slammed the door. It was
weird to see my brother so upset and

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listen to my dad arguing because he
was an extremely quiet person. I don

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' t know what caused that discussion. They happened after ten o' clock

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at night and my brother wasn'
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My mom insisted we call the police
to report her disappearance. Perhaps the

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position of my parents seemed a little
exaggerated, but it was quite understandable,

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since Nacho had never done that.
My dad was marking the police. When

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we heard they knocked on the door. It was my brother who got hit.

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He was bleeding out of his mouth. We immediately asked him what had

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happened. We thought he was mugged. When he saw us so worried.

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She started laughing with laughter as her
red teeth were seen from the blood,

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saying that we didn' t skip
so much. He had just been beaten

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with other boys and, as we
saw, he was not exactly a very

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smart person to fight because they had
left him as Christ on the Cross.

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He said it in such a mockery
way that it even seemed blasphemy to me.

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My dad immediately claimed him by scolding
him for his words. At that

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time I understood my dad because Nacho
laughed like he was mocking my father'

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s words. I asked Nacho to
calm down and keep quiet. He didn

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' t answer anything. He just
stared at me while smiling in a grotesque

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way because he still had blood.
I took him to the room. While

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he was cleaning up, I asked
him if he had drugged himself. He

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didn' t even answer me.
He continued to say a series of inconsistencies,

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as if he did not realize his
reality. I was convinced that he

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had put an amazing substance into his
body because he acted in a very rare

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way. I texted Daniel to tell
him how my brother was. He immediately

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told me to be on the lookout, because perhaps he was beginning to have

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bad friendships that would lead him down
the road of vice. It was best

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to take care of him so that
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He also calmed me down by telling
me that maybe it was the first time

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I did it and I had only
done it out of curiosity. Nacho took

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time to fall asleep. I brought
him a sandwich with a glass of milk

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to cut off the effect of drugs. It most likely worked because he immediately

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fell asleep. He didn' t
even undress, he just lay face down

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while snoring in an exaggerated way,
I took off his shoes and covered him

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with his blanket. In the morning
he rose as if nothing had happened.

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He looked at him carefully to see
his reactions. It mattered in a normal

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way. He started talking about one
of his high school classmates, until I

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got desperate and asked him if he
didn' t remember anything. He looked

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at me strangely. Again I asked
him the same question. He said no.

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What had happened. I didn'
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s why I didn' t answer
him. I just slapped him on the

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back telling him that yesterday I had
been very worried about my parents and that

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I wouldn' t do it again
as expected. My dad was upset with

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him. He tried to disguise his
anger by asking him how he felt.

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He replied very well. I think
my dad didn' t want to argue

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again. He only asked her not
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very worried and if she went out, just tell them where she was going.

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During the journey to high school I
watched Nacho carefully. Again he was

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my brother, quiet and quiet forever. I was relieved to believe that I

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was not able to get substances into
her body. The following days passed with

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the same daily and calmness as always. Nacho was the same quiet teenager I

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knew until one night the silence was
interrupted by my brother. I didn'

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t realize what time in the morning
he woke up and got up, started

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talking inconsistencies as he moved all over
the room. He was groping in a

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strange way, as if he wanted
to fly. First he woke me up

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because I was standing at the side
of my bed, watching me sleep without

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saying anything with my eyes wide open. I didn' t know how I

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woke up, as I was in
a deep sleep. When I opened my

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eyes, I was scared because I
was there attentive to my dream right away.

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He went crazy to move all over
the room. I was telling him

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to calm down, but he didn' t seem to listen to me He

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was into his madness. I got
up and grabbed him in the back to

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react, but he pulled me back
with a huge force. My brother was

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younger than me. It seemed to
have more strength I fell to the floor,

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I hurt my waist, but that
didn' t stop me from getting

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up upset and throwing it out the
same way Nacho did. He reacted immediately.

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There was a fight between the two
of us. Since we never had

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a fight, we threw several things
around my parents. They immediately entered the

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room. My dad screamed it was
the first time I saw him so upset.

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He was usually a quiet and tolerant
man. In this case it was

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different. We were behaving like two
wild animals. I immediately released my brother.

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He also did it and kept looking
at me, as he had never

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done before. His gaze was one
of hatred. My dad said the next

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day we' d talk when we
were all quieter. He asked us to

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go to bed to sleep, because
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I' d be lying if I
told them I could sleep like nothing

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ever happened. I was until dawn
trying to understand what was happening to my

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brother and how he had come to
get that way. If he was as

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quiet as my dad while still looking
for an explanation of my brother Nacho'

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s abrupt behavior, he fell asleep
immediately, even snoring in a way I

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had not heard before. It took
me a long time to sleep. I

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heard my mom knocking on the door
so we could manage to go to high

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school. During breakfast no one commented
anything except that my dad asked us to

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make peace and from that moment on
we treated ourselves with much respect. Nacho

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and I nodded without saying more words, we got up from the dining room

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to go to high school. That
day we left in complete silence on the

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way to school. As soon as
we got to the school building, my

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dad told us that the Holy Spirit
was with us all the time that we

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didn' t let him down.
Nacho made a strange grunt, but neither

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my dad nor I said anything.
We got out of the car. My

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brother began to walk slowly and fast
so that we wouldn' t get there

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before they closed the door. Nacho
smiled again in that strange way and told

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me that he would not enter classes, he did not feel like doing it.

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He began to walk quickly to the
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I wanted to reach him, but
at that moment the prefect went out to

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check the gadgets. I didn'
t say anything anymore, because Nacho would

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get into trouble. I just turned
to where he went I got to see

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him when he turned to the right
of the street and lost sight of him

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leaving high school. I was afraid
Nacho wasn' t outside, but as

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soon as I saw him, my
calm returned. I didn' t really

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find any sense in what he did, but since I didn' t want

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to fight him anymore, I was
quiet shortly before I got home. Nacho

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stopped. He turned around and said
softly. The thing is, I have

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a new friend. He tells me
things I never thought could be possible.

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It also makes me laugh only that
sometimes it gets very upset if things don

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' t work out as expected.
That' s why he didn' t

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finish telling me what he wanted anymore, because suddenly he was quiet as much

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as I tried to keep him talking. I didn' t get it on.

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As soon as we entered the house, Nacho went to his bedroom,

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I spoke to him to come down
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the room. I was gonna open
the door when I heard he was talking

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to someone. I thought he was
calling. That' s why I waited

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for it to end. But since
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door and went into the room.
He jumped from the impression he gave him.

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When he saw me, he began
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I asked him to calm down and
he didn' t have to tell me

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anything. I just wanted him to
eat a little nacho. He didn'

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t want to eat. I knew
something was wrong with my brother. I

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had no idea what it was.
When I got rid of my schoolwork,

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I texted Daniel. I told him
how strange my brother was and how erratic

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he was. I thought Daniel wouldn' t understand me. It was weird

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that he asked me when I was
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I hadn' t started thinking about
what you asked me. I replied that

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I had to analyze it because I
didn' t know. I asked Daniel

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what that had to do with my
middle brother' s behavior, because he

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suspected he was using substances. For
this reason the sudden mood swings. Daniel

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made a comment to me that I
had not even gone through my mind to

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take into account that sometimes evil acted
in different ways and perhaps what my brother

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had was not a product of substance
consumption, but that evil was taking over

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his body. What Daniel told me
seemed quite unrealistic. I didn' t

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contradict it, but I didn'
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it because he stopped talking about it. I stopped talking to my friend because

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I heard my sister screaming. When
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Nacho chased her around the table.
He caught her holding her hair. While

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my sister screamed desperate, I yelled
at her to let go. He smiled

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in a sinister way. He had
to be stopped by the sword. Again

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he tried to win me over with
his great strength, but this time he

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did not succeed. He started screaming
like crazy while keeping him immobilized. When

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he calmed down, I let him
go. He started insulting me with words

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I' d rather not repeat.
My sister cried very scared. I hugged

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her to calm her down. Little
by little he calmed down, while Nacho

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became intense again. A little before
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He stopped throwing things in his room. As soon as my sister saw my

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dad, she went to hug him
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My father stared at me. I
didn' t mean anything, because I

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felt Nacho could hear everything I was
saying. Later, my dad went out

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to pick up my mom. To
work. I asked my sister to leave

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with my dad She didn' t
even doubt it. He immediately left with

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him as soon as they left.
I went to bed with Nacho. He

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had fallen asleep, snoring loudly as
he snuck through his belongings. He started

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moving in a strange way. His
limbs became tense, he was as paralyzed

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with his eyes open. It was
quite disturbing to see him in that state.

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I took a picture of him and
sent it to Daniel. He immediately

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answered me. He told me not
to hesitate. My brother was possessed.

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Yet. I had a hard time
believing it. The doubt had been sown

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in my mind, but it was
going to be removed very soon, because

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after midnight, Nacho rose up to
walk erratically throughout the room. There was

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a time when his voice changed,
he got too thick and began to talk

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as if there was someone next to
him. I kept talking, but I

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didn' t do it out loud, but in the form of a murmur,

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because I couldn' t tell what
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So, he came to my bed, stood aside and kept talking. I

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closed my eyes to think I was
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I was doing. So it lasted
several minutes until he went to his bed

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and lay down to sleep. When
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I began to think about the questions
Daniel asked me. It was at

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that moment that I became aware of
that role I put in the fire during

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the spiritual camp. I doubted very
much that such a simple act would have

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such radical consequences. I denied it
by trying to give thousands of explanations for

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my brother' s strange conduct.
The next day, Nacho got up as

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usual, held him responsible for his
duties, had breakfast and was in time

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for high school. As soon as
I could, I met with daniel I

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told him everything about my brother.
He told me that everything led him to

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think that Nacho had the devil inside, because the same thing happened to his

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cousin. It happened to her because
she played with the huija. He asked

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me if I had any idea how
that could happen to Nacho. With a

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little fear, I reminded him of
what I had done during the last night

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of the camp. Daniel, like
me, had neither the age nor the

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resources to understand what was happening to
Nacho. That' s when my friend

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said it was a possession. After
I was with Daniel, I was not

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sure what my friend had told me, but I approached my parents as soon

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as I saw Nacho fell asleep.
I went to my parents' room to

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talk to them. I told them
I thought Nacho was possessed and I was

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to blame. I explained to them
the same thing that I spoke to Daniel

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my dad in a very kind way. He told me that I was not

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responsible for what was going on with
Nacho, but what happened with Nacho had

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nothing to do with the dark.
This is how they told him in the

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congregation, not to mention his real
name. I had already talked to my

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mom and they were thinking of taking
him to a psychologist. My parents were

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very kind to me inside. I
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I said good night to my parents
and went to my room, the

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one I shared with Nacho. As
soon as I walked into the room,

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I sensed a strange smell. I
approached my brother and that foul smell came

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from his body. He wasn'
t that strong, but he was strong

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enough to distinguish him. That night
was the final night to realize that something

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very bad existed in Nacho. I
slept to sleep feeling a little relieved because

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my parents didn' t hold me
responsible for what happened. It was one

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of the nights I started to rest, as I did before going to camp,

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until I woke up a scream almost
fell out of bed from the impression

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received. It was Nacho who started
screaming desperately as he stood in the corner

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of the room, hitting his head. Then he turned to me and smiled

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in a disturbing way. Again,
he started screaming and hitting himself. My

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parents came in right away. It
was my dad who approached my brother.

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He took him by the arm to
take him back to bed, but Nacho

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refused to do so. He resisted
my dad' s insistence affectionately. He

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asked him to go to rest because
the next day there was school, but

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he responded with an assault he ventured
so hard that my dad fell. My

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mom tried to intervene, but she
was thrown the same way. Nacho began

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to convulse while emitting horrible grunts.
After a few minutes he calmed down and

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became unconscious. Between my pair,
Dad and I took him to his bed.

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I noticed several bruises on my stomach
and shoulders. I showed them to

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my parents. I saw the worry
and pain in his eyes. From that

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night on, my parents took the
church pastor to pray in the house.

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He started praying in every room in
the house. While he was doing so,

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he held the sacred book in his
hands. Sometimes he stopped his prayers

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to read some Bible verse that was
appropriate for the moment. When the shepherd

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entered the room in which he was
nacho. He got upset. He began

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to talk about bad things to silence
the pastor’ s prayers. Since he

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failed to achieve his goal, he
began to sing. The shepherd continued to

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read God’ s word immediately,
left the room and continued in the other

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parts of the house praying. After
he finished praying, he told my parents

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that prayers needed to be reinforced to
get evil out of the house. They

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were just youthful weaknesses and everything would
pass to my brother. The pastor left

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leaving my parents alone, but I
thought that what he did was little or

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almost nothing, because I did not
notice any change in my brother. On

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the contrary, other phenomena began to
appear in it, especially at night.

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It was when my brother seemed to
become someone else, as if he were

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his double evil. I looked again
for my friend Daniel, without omitting details.

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I told him everything about him.
That' s when he suggested I

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take him to St Monica' s
Temple with Father Ceja. The priest was

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a specialist in performing exorcisms with him. They took their cousin and now she

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was freed from the devil. Every
Thursday and Saturday there was a Mass of

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healing and prayer. My friend gave
me all the details about the exorcisms he

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witnessed in the temple, as well
as the strange way his cousin acted.

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Only there was a problem. Father
Ceja was a Catholic priest. Perhaps my

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parents were not going to share the
same beliefs, so I wasn’ t

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sure if they wanted to go to
the temple. It occurred to Daniel that

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we could carry Nacho with lies,
but since we were minors, we were

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not going to be allowed to attend
alone, as the father always asked for

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an adult to be present. Mostly
in a case like Nacho' s,

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I didn' t know what to
do or who to turn to. Most

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of the family was Christian and the
one who did not practice that religion were

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atheistic relatives who did not believe in
anything. I didn' t know who

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to ask for help. When I
got home, my parents were on their

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way out. I was told you
had an appointment with a psychologist. Nacho

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was known in the congregation to commune
with his own beliefs. My parents left

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with my brother before they locked the
door. Nacho turned to say goodbye to

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me, but it wasn' t
a dice who told me, but he

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bent his face looking in a weird
way. At the same time he made

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a macabre smile. I had the
impression that it was a warning and that

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everything my parents did was not going
to be of any use. They left

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all afternoon when they arrived. The
first thing I put my attention to was

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carefully observing Nacho. I had the
vague hope that what was really going on

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was a psychological disorder and that it
was all pure speculation of mine. I

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wanted that theory to be true and
I believed it because my brother was him

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again, with his shy smile his
characteristic introversion. That night I was attentive

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to what I was doing. Nothing
happened. Nacho was quiet sleeping like he

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used to. Every once in a
while I would come up to see her

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breathing and everything seemed normal, but
I noticed something that scared me a lot.

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I saw a lump in his stomach. I gently picked up the T

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- shirt something inside his stomach.
He was moving. It was visible below

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his skin, it was the size
of a ball three centimeters in diameter.

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He would run down the stomach and
climb up to the chest. Then he

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went down his left arm. He' d come back to pass through the

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right arm. Surely I felt something
to my brother because he was complaining as

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that strange ball moved inside his body. I tried to touch her with my

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finger. When I could do it, the ball was hot. I stopped

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her with my hand, but she
got bigger and my brother complained more.

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I stopped playing it so my brother
wouldn' t suffer. The next day

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I asked Daniel to help me take
my brother to that church. I'

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d ask my cousin' s wife
to join us. She always showed us

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her love. He was a great
person. Daniel and I called him on

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the phone. When I told him
the reason for my call, he was

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silent for a few minutes. He
didn' t answer anything, so I

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thought he would refuse to help us, but after thinking about it, he

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told me that he would come with
us. It was a joy for me

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to hear that it would help us. We told her we' d meet

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her the next day at the temple
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clock in the afternoon. I only
needed to convince my brother, because at

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that point I had the impression that
he was ahead of my thoughts in advance.

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I knew what I was going to
say or ask for for that time

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we were already very far apart,
we talked very little. None of them

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had confidence in each other. At
night I approached him with a little fear.

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I told him that I wanted to
take him to a special place where

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they were going to help us improve
our relationship. Nacho smiled sarcastically and told

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me not to cheat him, I
knew where I wanted to take him,

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but he was going to go just
to show me that nothing could with him.

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His answer was the clearest confirmation that
everything I believed was true, because

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sometimes I had a slight hope that
everything was my imagination, but now I

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had no doubt. I was convinced. When we arrived at the temple,

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my Aunt Anne was already waiting for
us. He greeted us warmly, while

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my brother laughed ironically. My aunt
completely ignored him and we entered the temple.

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As soon as the father went out
with the incense and began the temple

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to fill itself with the smell.
I looked at my brother' s face

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at incense. He made a repulsion
grin. Like that smell bothers him a

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lot. He also wanted out,
but I stopped him with my arm.

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Daniel stopped him, too. He
looked at us furiously and with great force.

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He got out of our arms.
My aunt realized what was going on,

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forced him to stay a few more
minutes later they would leave. Nacho

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answered him with some obsessive words that
embarrassed me. At that moment I thought

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it would all be in vain,
because my brother turned around to leave the

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temple. As he walked toward the
door, he fell to the floor and

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began to convulse, as on more
than one occasion it happened to him in

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the house, but on this occasion
he began to give a loud scream that,

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apart from noisy, was disturbing.
The priest, unalterably, continued to

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perform his rituals which, apparently,
were very effective. I realized that Father

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Ceja was more than used to seeing
such reactions. I wanted to go help

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my brother, but the priest said
not to, to leave him alone with

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his fight against evil. I was
so remorseful to see him battling the devil.

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Until the father concluded his prayers.
My brother calmed down and went unconscious.

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Father said not to worry. God
was doing his job right away.

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He gave his farewell words and the
Mass ended when the priest gave the signal

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so that we would approach our relatives
immediately. I approached Nacho. He was

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starting to react. I can'
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saw him it was him. Again
he asked me what was going on.

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I just told him that from now
on everything was going to be fine,

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not to worry. We leave the
Church with a feeling of satisfaction. Before

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retiring, Father Ceja said it was
not enough to attend the healing Mass on

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a single occasion. It was necessary
to go several times and, if possible,

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not stop praying for the relative.
The father didn' t want to

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mention the word possessed. He refrained
from doing so. I left the temple

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thanking my aunt and Daniel for their
support. They both told me they would

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continue to support me as long as
necessary. From the first time we went

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to the Temple of Santa Monica,
I noticed a radical change in my brother.

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I can' t say it was
okay. Since the first healing Mass.

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I still had episodes in which the
demon tried not to leave his body,

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but I realized that the divine power
was stronger than that demon. Father

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Seja told us that it could be
the demon belzebub, but it was better

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not to give it a name.
We should keep praying at home constantly and

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have a blessed rosary, as well
as a blessed crucifix. Everything the father

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told us we did. I would
lie if I said it was an easy

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process, but my brother, little
by little, was the one who was

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previously accompanied by my aunt Anna.
We told my parents what we had done.

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They were not very pleased, but
they had no choice but to accept

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what was evident. I was able
to recover my brother and also realize the

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existence of good and evil, because
I lived him in my own flesh beside

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my brother. Story written and adapted
by Adriana Cuevas