Betray Me, and You’re Dead
Inside the inner lining, I felt a neatly folded piece of paper.
I unfolded it to see that it was a child’s crayon drawing of a strong man holding hands with a long-haired woman and a little boy. Next to them, written in words, read, “Papa, Mamma, and I, on top of the Empire State Building.”
In one corner of the drawing, a figure had been scribbled over in thick black crayon. Holding it up to the light, I could faintly make out what had been covered. It was a woman in a red dress, lying in a pool of blood, and that woman was me. So it seemed the five-year-old illegitimate son, Antonio, had already been taught how to erase me from the picture.
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