Lidia started making children’s dresses for a local shop. At first, her hands shook while she worked. Then one day they stopped.
I kept training in the mornings. Reading in the afternoons. The rage never disappeared, not fully. It probably never will. But it changed. It stopped being fire and became direction.
Sofía changed too.
The child who used to go still whenever someone raised a voice began to laugh again. Really laugh. Full and clear and free. Her laughter filled the apartment like sunlight.
Sometimes Lidia would wake in the middle of the night and find me sitting in the living room with a book open in my lap.
“Is it really over?” she would ask.
And I would answer the same way every time.
“It’s over now.”
And because we had made it true, we believed it.
People spent years telling me I was too much. Too angry. Too intense. Too dangerous. Maybe I was.
