{"id":62310,"date":"2025-06-02T08:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62310"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:12:32","slug":"woman-reacts-tragically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62310","title":{"rendered":"Woman reacts tragically?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The V\u00e1squez family\u2019s house always smelled of dampness and withered flowers. Mariana, a single mother, lived there with her seven-year-old daughter, Luc\u00eda. Since her husband abandoned them, Mariana had become cold, obsessed with the idea that Luc\u00eda **wasn\u2019t really her daughter**.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014*\u201dMom, why do you always look at me like that?\u201d* \u2014asked Luc\u00eda, while her mother stared at her in front of the hallway mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014*\u201dBecause your eyes\u2026 aren\u2019t mine\u201d* \u2014Mariana responded, running her bony fingers over the girl\u2019s reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

### **The Truth in Dreams**<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every night, Mariana dreamed the same thing: **an unknown woman** had taken the real Luc\u00eda from her and left *this little girl* in her place. She would wake up sweating, convinced that her daughter was a **deception**, an evil being who had taken her place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One afternoon, while cleaning the attic, she found her grandmother\u2019s old diary. Between the pages, a phrase was repeated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014*\u201dWhat game, Mom?\u201d*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014*\u201dOne to know if you\u2019re really mine.\u201d*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mariana took Luc\u00eda\u2019s small hand and, with the edge of the knife, **made a cut in her palm**. The girl screamed, but her mother held her tightly. Then, she did the same to her own hand and **pressed their blood together against the mirror**.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucia\u2019s blood **didn\u2019t mix**. Instead, it began to trickle down, forming words on the glass:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\u201dIT\u2019S NOT YOURS\u201d*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

### **The Final Cry**<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariana, her eyes wide open, **plunged the knife into Luc\u00eda\u2019s chest**. The girl fell to the ground, but before dying, she whispered in a voice that wasn\u2019t her own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014*\u201dYou are not the real Mariana either\u2026\u201d*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then, **the mirror shattered into a thousand pieces**, revealing the corpse of the *real* Lucia behind the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariana looked at her hands and saw that they were **dissolving into ash**. Because she had never been the mother\u2026 but rather **the spirit of a woman who died in that house years before**, condemned to repeat her crime for all eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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