By Marco Paulini
Espinoza
She saw thirteen times
the Spring to flourish. Already at mid-morning, sshe had gotten away the
village too much, than her spirit felt to be free as when her mother took her
hand to guide her way just some years ago.
The remembrance
posessed her most intimate thougs when she suddenly felt tired, and a light
dizziness made her to look for a place where to lay, while she streched Carola
among her hands.
The cool wind made to
collide some dry leaves against her face, awoke, and magically the Moon
enlighted the prairie letting to glimpse tthe absence of the ten sheeps those
were the perfect motivation and excuse of her taking-away.
Her hand slided on the
grass and found the lace of Carola's dress. Within very much bad luck, a smile
sketched out on her face at the time that a tear ran over her chick. as she
could, she held Carola into her arms,
squeezing it, and wishing to bring back
to that day of her eight birthday when Aunt Sofía, who had years far
away, came back from the city bringing the doll with its pretty smile
embroidered on his little cloth face, which came in a beautiful box
decorated with a red ribbon, what would
be her gift remembering the day when she born.
She got up and a
strange waist pain brought her down again almost inmediatly, while a tearing pain scream who nobody heard at the lonely prairie
escaped out from her being.
She tried to slow down
when she felt a warn fluid to run her
thighs. She could not understand why she was bleeding profusely. The cold of
the death took her fragile body making
her to tremble, she cried and she tried to scream for help, but she was
completely alone.
Foolishly, as
theatrical motion scenes, almost programmed thoughs passed through her head:
What would be thinking about her at his husband Juan's house? Surely that as at
her parents' hhouse "she was very pampered", she as not been
accostumed to her new family. In the other hand, wwhat her father could think
about of her running-away offense as the much he earned to negotiate with Juan
for the town's people not to speak and realize her daughter was not virgin
anymore.
As she does not arrive
into home, Juan surely would despise her
and look for another girl at the lonely countryside for forcing her to
make love as the habit was, because in his 22-year-old, he had it done many
times, as that time when Cecilia went out from the school and the fortune, the
misfortune, made to match Juan at the lonely countryside, no words crossing
each other... and her destiny could change forever.
What did Juan care
about doing it once again? What did Juan care about leaving Cecilia dishonored
and marked lifetime?
She blamed for taking
away too much because her intenttion was to feel free only but not running
away, she blamed for losing the sheeps,
she blamed for being a bad daughter, she blamed for being a bad woman and she could not understand what her body
was passing through.
She did an unnatural
effort and walked as she could, almost
dragging. Her body did not responsed once more time and a "My God, help
me" was her ultimate reasong.
It was four in the
morning wen a farmer tripped on Cecilia amid the fog, who was white as a paper
and cold because of the sierra's air, but still having pulse. Rushing, he took
her on his arms and covered her up with his poncho. A rampage started at the
town. Juan did not want her to be addressed to the health post because it
was a villagers' habit to heal their
diseased with healers and shamans.
At five in the
afternoon, Don Evaristo, a very respected shaman, said he could not do anything
else yet for Cecilia and bring her to the medical post.
Cecilia was evacuated
and arrived into the city's hospital almost at midnight. Half an hour later, her death was confirmed.
The innocence of her years did not let her to understand she was pregnant eight
weeks. The medical doctors confirmed the next day the bleeding cause was a
miscarriage.
Let's denounce the
machismo too ingrained inside the cultural practices. Stop the gender violence!
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