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was used to watching the show. Her husband sat on the sofa while she went
into the kitchen to prepare some of their favorite tea. When she came back
with the tea she was paralyzed because of something she saw on the
television. Her husband asked what was wrong but she didn’t answer. He
insisted since she looked stiff like a statue. Mrs. Matilde told me she saw a
face that had left her paralyzed. She started to tremble so hard she started to
spill the tea. The hot tea made her scream and react. This got her husband
very scared. It was in this moment she was able to remember and it was
then that her husband and family thought she had definitively gone mad.
She bought the magazine not too long after the show, called the number
provided on it, and found out how to get in touch with me. They gave her
instructions on how to get to the Tamarindo. When she got there I was
already gone. She and her daughter asked the people around the
neighborhood were to find me but none one new where I was. They
decided to drive around in the hopes of finding me. After a while they gave
up and decided to go back to their homes. Trying to leave Cabo Rojo they
got lost. They drove for a while trying to get out of town. When they
passed a little wooden house Mrs. Matilde got very anxious and told her
daughter to go back. Her daughter became alarmed and asked what was
wrong. She said she didn’t know why but she knew she would find me in
that house.
This is how this lady, whom I now consider family, found me. Months after
I made that calling in the various media, I finally found a person who
shared that experience with me. That night I dreamt of clowns, midgets,
and different colored balloons. It was a circus. In the crowd I saw Mrs.
Matilde smiling and happy.
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