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Nobody can imagine the pain they experienced in their final moments,
and you all, the young, don’t know the horror of knowing that those
who did it weren’t monsters, it wasn’t Jack the Ripper: they were their
classmates, their boyfriends, their relatives, the friendly taxi driver that
you chatted with yesterday, the police officer on the corner.

“At least the deaths of all those women were good for something.”
Clinging to her cane, The Caretaker will turn brusquely to respond.
“Good for something? For what? To teach us that we’re a horror? We already knew that. It’s one thing to voluntarily give your life for a cause and it’s another to be killed for it. Which would you like more? That your life had been good ‘for something’ or to have lived?

—Por lo menos las muertes de todas estas mujeres sirvieron para algo.
Aferrada a su bastón, la Guardiana se girará bruscamente para responder.
—¿Sirvieron para algo? ¿Para qué? ¿Para enseñarnos que somos un horror? Eso ya lo sabíamos. Una cosa es dar la vida voluntariamente por una causa y otra cosa es que te maten así. ¿Qué te gustaría más a ti? ¿Que tu vida haya servido “para algo” o haber podido vivir?

Marisela came to the door and asked to join the group. Those girls taught her to kick well with her stockings and uniform and everything, to throw her elbows, to be brave and to cry in good company.

Una tarde Marisela llamó a la puerta y pidió unirse al grupo. Esas muchachas le enseñaron a patear bien con todo y medias y uniforme, a dar codazos, a ser valiente y a llorar acompañada.