CHAPTER 76

OLIVIA.

My mother and I were well taken care of at the hospital. It is a good thing to work in an insurance company, our policies are always the best, besides, the real estate company where my mother works, had a large part of its payroll enrolled in the insurance company where I worked. We had to make it worth the money she was deducted each month.

The downside of taking her there was herself. Being stubborn as ever, she pretended that she was not in pain and that the high fever she had been carrying for hours (many hours) was due to a viral process that —according to her— would pass in no time.

Sometimes I don't understand Mom.

Generally, she is a haughty, active woman, with energy, intelligence, and a lot of kindness to give. It was not so easy to notice her old age, many did not believe that she was almost seventy years old. On the contrary when she got sick. She aged suddenly, she looked older. No exaggeration, that she looked like a ten or twelve-year-old girl who must be persua