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"After your children's mother went missing, you realized that it was your wife who was missing. Your wife, whom you'd forgotten about for fifty years, was present in your heart. Only after she disappeared did she come to you tangibly, as if you could reach out and touch her."

As a woman, the husband's chapter feels like a horror story.

A veces se nos olvida, por más tonto que parezca, que nuestra madre es un humano. Que sufre, que llora, que ríe, que hace de todo para que sus hijos estén bien siempre y todo eso lo hace sin que la veamos, porque no desea que nos demos cuenta pero nos damos cuenta y decidimos hacer como si nada.