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I made all this arrangements impulsed by loved ones, who in their solidarity were
worried of my frame of mind absorbed and indifferent. They thought –for unknowing the
strange circumstances in which occurred the seism– that the disaster had plunged me in a
volitional shock.

The reasoning was not unfortunate due to, even though I had never been devoted to the
material goods, the loss of four years of work and sacrifices resulted an extreme painful proof,
that in other opportunity would have affected me quite bit. In that moment, the truth was
other: my mind, since the moment in which I recovered serenity, not ceased to analyse the
lived moments. Being absorbed by the remembrance of that infernal night, it is understood
that I seemed to be for the sight of rest as absent and dejected.

Far to be thus, a deaf rage was growing inside of me, a blind furore, without obfuscate
me, it seemed instead to be nourishing me of vital force and courage. I’d not retreat! Now more
than ever!

A week later the seism, I was prepared and ready to travel off. The retardation not
affected substantially my previous plans and for this reason, with a healthy juvenile
impatience, I desired to leave as soon as possible.

It was Monday once again; I planned to pass through Cerrillos to say goodbye to my
parents and, if I hurried to leave, I would reach to have breakfast with them.

I charged the bag and a briefcase in the damaged Ford, finally rescued within the debris,
and I left to the adventure.

Chapter VII

To say that I was not the same man that I was seven days before would wrong because,
essentially, nothing had changed inside me. However I didn’t feel equal and I knew that I
would never be who I was before. –As Dante, I went down to Hell and returned –I thought–. To
live from now on with the remembrance of the Abyss, logically, has to be different.

But it was not only about a sinister remembrance. I searched the spiritual help and I had
received it. It is true that the succour reached in coincidence to the attack of the Potencies of

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