CHAPTER 31

Adriana

The feelings on their faces are multiple.

Patricia: Mom, this is a joke...right?

Me (on the verge of tears): no, it's the truth.

Patricia: I thought we told each other everything.

I feel stupid and especially ashamed of the image that I send to my children. I have always talked to them about the place of the truth, about not hiding things between family members.

As for Felix, he seems more understanding. He doesn't say anything, but I feel that he is not as upset as Patricia.

Me: Kids, I'm going to tell you a story that only your father and I know. Well, besides my psychologist.

I start telling the story of my life thirty years ago. I tell them everything from top to bottom.

I see that they are sad for me.

Patricia: I don't judge you, Mom. But why suffer to give birth to this child and then abandon him? I mean, the worst was over.