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MESS UP BEFORE YOU TIDY UP.Frank visited Lara in the morning without knowing that she was having therapy and would still spend another hour or hour and a half with Patrícia. He looked for Lipe in the hospital but couldn't find him. He leaned against the wall in the waiting room, even though there were dozens of empty chairs, and started scrolling through his phone.Someone bumped into him, causing him to move to the side, but the person bumped into him again, making him instinctively move further away. When the person bumped into him for the third time, he looked to the side, trying to understand why, out of all the available seats, they had to be right next to him."You're hard to find," Cecília, the physiotherapist, smiled at him."Hi, how are you?" He smiled back at her and raised an eyebrow, asking, "Were you looking for me?""You just told me your friend's name was Lara, and believe me, there are many Laras admitted in this hospital!" She rolled her eyes playfully, and Frank did
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I'M TIRED!Cilmo and Clara entered the room, and Dália filled them in on the situation."Guys, if someone is sick and hasn't told anyone, is it wrong to tell someone else?" Cilmo asked, taking a seat at the table where Dália had brought them and started making the much-needed coffee."Don't tell me you're sick too?" Clara asked."No, I'm great, just a bit sore from all the sex, but perfect! Fael is tireless," Dália said, earning eye rolls from Clara and Dália, as she managed to bring her boyfriend or fling into every conversation."Are you a doctor or a priest? Did the person ask you to keep it a secret at least?" Dália inquired."No, the person didn't ask me to keep it a secret, but they don't want to talk about it and refuse treatment," Cilmo replied, finally releasing what had been driving her crazy since she found out."Who is it? Márcia? She was doing better, she escaped from the hospital, probably because she thought she would stay there for many days like Lara. Weren't you the
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WALKING THROUGH THE PASTMy brother, two years older than me Scott, was my partner, my best friend for as long as I can remember — Lara continued telling the psychologist —, and I couldn't function without him, and he couldn't function without me. Amidst so many children, so many fights in our house, Scot and I were each other's lifeline. We took showers together, played together, went to the bathroom, slept, everything, we did everything together! After me, there was the youngest one, and she was born with a physical disability. So, apart from being the youngest, she was the sickly one and received a little more care from my parents, especially my mother, as my father was always drunk and claimed she wasn't his daughter most of the time. He would shout at the top of his lungs when he was heavily intoxicated — which was usually the case — that he hadn't functioned as a man for years when my mother got pregnant. And he only didn't beat up my little sister because he pitied her for her
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BEING BORN HURTS, BEING REBORN HURTS EVEN MORE!Lara took a deep breath, her voice filled with exhaustion. She continued her narrative:"But I don't know, I do know... it was a shame! The shame that my father felt, which made him disappear for a few days after being dragged onto the street and beaten by a woman much smaller than him, with his wife's help. He was drunk, he said afterward, and that's why he got beaten. But he used to beat us even when he was drunk. But what happened next was that Dinah entered our house again, breathless and strange, and fell to her knees in the living room. She vomited on our floor and cried. Then she apologized to us, crying with her bruised face from my father's punch. She begged us for forgiveness, from us and my mother, and she redeemed the love we had for her, the love that had been tarnished. But it was so easy to win us over. Any smile could buy us because they were so rare.Dinah told us that we could be whatever we wanted, that we were special
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VARIETIESThe next day wasn't as easy as he had hoped it would be. Patrícia arrived in the morning for the therapy session, but Lara didn't even smile at her. She seemed to be in a different mode, the "therapy" mode, and shortly after the psychologist and Lipe sat down, she began:"It didn't go as we imagined it would. My father came back home three days later. We didn't know where he was until that moment, and my mother and all of us automatically went into fear and apprehension mode, even though Dinha had told us not to fear him and kept repeating that my mother did very well in defending herself against him. But theory is one thing, right? In practice, it's very different. The social worker wasn't there. It was just us again with him, and he was very, very drunk! After years of torment, fear came rushing back, and we went into defense mode. Years of following the same script. As soon as he entered the room, he went straight to my mother's side, and my sister Lucy, the oldest among
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BODY FIGHTING"For years, decades actually, I haven't spoken his name," Lara said, and Lipe felt his heart being filled with bitterness. He tasted bitterness in his heart and soul as he listened to her recounting her life. And when she mentioned that name, he felt a chill down his spine. She wouldn't say the name when awake, but she would cry in her sleep and repeat that name when she had nightmares."Lara, I think we can continue tomorrow," Patrícia said to her in a gentle voice, and that seemed to awaken something within the girl, as she lifted her chin and her expression changed."I hate living, Patrícia. From the depths of my soul, I hate life and I hate living. And there's nothing you can say that will change that. Opening up about my life, the suffering I've already endured, won't bring me relief. Believe me, I never feel better when I open up, and Lipe is the one who has to deal with it afterward, and that's not fair! It's not fair for me to keep being hospitalized here, trying
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FILTHY GHOSTS"When I said martyrdom, it was because it truly was a martyrdom" - Lara resumed her therapy the following day from where she had left off the day before. "I went months without seeing my brother Scot, and the others weren't like him. Each one had their own struggles, they loved me, but not like Scot did. They cared about me, but none of them cared about me like Scot did. The age gap between my other siblings and me was significant, either older or younger, like the youngest one, and she couldn't help me either. She didn't even know what happened when I went to sleep at night, and because of her disability, I had to protect her from him too, from my stepfather. I imagined that it was already so difficult for me, she wouldn't be able to bear it. And before you ask if my mother could help me, let me tell you that she started treating me differently. She no longer had much time for me due to work, taking care of my little sister who frequently had to undergo surgeries and sp
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DOMINO EFFECT"My mother took the blame. She called the police and said she had killed her husband because he was abusing the daughters. Dinah showed up and stayed with us for a few days. While my mother was detained, Dinah assured us that she would soon be released, claiming self-defense, but it was a bureaucratic process that would take a few days. However, before she could be released, she did what Scot told her to do. They found her hanged in her cell on the day she was supposed to be set free.Lara continued with her therapy. Each day she seemed stronger, at least physically she was doing better, and she hadn't mentioned leaving or drinking for days.During the time Scot was living on the streets, ever since he left our father's house, since he ran away, he began to dwell in the streets. Every day in a different place, in an abandoned house. He started drinking and associating with drug users. He became dependent on both drugs and alcohol. And as absurd as it may sound, despite m
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