- Who are you?
It was as if the woman she try her questions in front of a mirror. Coincidentally, as many times in the course of their lives, without having communicated without having been seen for months, were dressed identically. Like when girls as his mother insisted on wearing them and the twins from newborn.
and Maria Rosa Maria Rosa were born physically identical. To six years old when his maternal grandfather Charles was still alive, if he wanted to know who was who was telling that had close 'calls the other to give them candy, "Another!, The aforementioned screaming and laughing are both requiring the old man approached the treat.
to fifteen years, everything was strange and funny circunstancia.de around the same womb to be born the same day with two minutes apart. But at that age two, each one by his side, met a same young man who falls in love. Although it is not kept secret both did not mention his name. Neither one spoke of the other to him. The outcome came a day that the twins were together at the cinema. And he was just arriving when they were about to enter. Miguel opened his eyes to see them. Look, this is "my love" ... both without achieving complete babble. And Michael, the boy who had troubled the heart without saying a word turned and walked away. As color came into his youthful face, they felt his world crumble beneath their feet ... and had no courage to see this movie ...
Rosa Maria decided to ask the father to the bachelor's degree after having been sent to Mexico to study medicine, taking advantage of his paternal aunt Grace lived in that country. She was willing to lead a life different from her sister. Nonsense, said the father, a boy will not break the family unit. But Rosa Maria stopped eating for several days to start the promise. Yes, a change that comes to practice here when you finish the race, finally agreed Don Juan Manuel, the father.
But Rosa Maria graduated and married in Mexico coming only once a year on the occasion of Christmas. And on each visit, the two sisters had their experiences, their matches. The most narrated to all who would hear it was the May 15 ochenticuatro at seven in the morning: "I felt a sharp pain in the head and other parts of the body-count Rosa Maria, I was heading to the hospital to work, the I took some painkillers but get this weird pain like being beaten did not decrease. It occurred to me call my mom on the phone. A call was, she told me, Maria Rosa was severely beaten in a road accident, at this time , is entered in the "Manolo Morales, are injecting it ..."
Over the years and already being widows and grandmothers, parents deceased, Maria Rosa was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Suffered episodes of lucidity but others were longer, in which unknown to members of his family, his two daughters and five grandchildren. In this back as five years. He lived with the second of his daughters, Elena, who for lack of a proper medical center helped her as best he could.
Rosa María as each Christmas comes this time to Managua laden with gifts. Hopefully, she wished fervently, Maria Rosa is lucid. Elena came to meet her at aeropuerto.P t seems my daughter walking thought watching her niece, is so like his mother!
Maria Rosa was sitting in the garden under a huge mango tree. To see the arrival of Maria Rosa stood. Blue skirt, white blouse, black low-heeled shoes, her hair tied behind his head as a crest with a white lace tie. Identically dressed, he thought Rosa Maria in whom the memories had surfaced quickly when asked his sister.
Who are you?, Repeated Mary Rosa. He rose from his chair and lack of memory, watched intently in the eyes of Rosa Maria. And this, by placing the bag on the picnic table and heard a strange voice did not know what to say. Delved into the depths of your brain and not the right answer surfaced. Efforts, wondering why this stranger was that question you only managed to say: The other, I am the other.
November 23, 2010
November 23, 2010
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Note: The image was taken from the Internet.
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