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2024-10-29 19:42:56“But dad says mom and dads have to be together. Mom, why don’t you like dad?” Manu asked as they crossed the gates of his school.
She should have known that Mateo would try to twist things in the moments they were far enough for her to see them but not hear what they talked about.
“Not all moms and dads are together.”
“So he can’t live with us?”
“All this time we were living well with grandma, right? Why are you suddenly saying this?”
“If we live together, I’ll see dad more often.”
“You can just ask him to visit you more.”
However, Valeria d
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