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At the age of 74 her children threw her out on the street leaving her only 1 rusty garage, but what was inside ruined the ambitious PART 1 Carmen was 74 years old when her oldest son, Matthew, turned to her in the stylish notary public’s office in downtown Guadalajara, Jalisco. With 1 freezing smile Carmen would never forget, she said, “Keep the junk lot, Mom.” It’s what you deserve by law.” 42 days had passed since Arturo, her husband for 51 years, had passed away due to 1 massive heart attack. It was 51 years of Carmen waking up early in the morning to prepare tortillas by hand, washing thick overalls that always smelled of motor oil, enduring silently, resisting economic crises and being the solid ground on which this whole family had risen. Arturo had been 1 talented mechanic, 1 man with callous hands and few words who, based on pure sweat, raised the most requested workshop of the American colony. They had 2 sons. Matthew, 1 calculating bank employee, married to Lorena, 1 impeccable-looking woman and rehearsed smile who was already planning how to tear down the walls of Carmen’s house before Arturo was even buried. The other was Hector, the youngest, a 40-year-old man who kept behaving like an irresponsible teenager, jumping from one job to another and always waiting for his parents to sort his life out. On the day of reading the will, the legal trap was closed on Carmen. Backed by 1 skilled lawyer paid by Lorena, the 2 children claimed the enormous 2-story house with the beautiful garden of bugambilias and the lucrative family mechanic workshop. Carmen, manipulating the estate regime, was left with only 1 corner plot in the dusty outskirts of Tonalá, 1 place that the family knew despisely as “the garbage disposal”. It was 1 building with walls of rusted sheet metal where Arturo allegedly accumulated unusable refactions and old scrap. “He has 1 good location, Mom. You could sell the old sheet by the kilo and take it out for your basic expenses,” said Hector, shrugling, without showing a single trace of empathy for the woman who gave him life. “And you have until Monday the 20th to get all your belongings out of the house,” Lorena ruled, checking her perfect nails with total indifference. “The bricklayers are coming in early for the full remodel and we don’t want any obstacles in the way.” Carmen didn’t shed a single tear in front of them. He swallowed the deep humiliation, signed where he was indicated, and went out into the street in the scorching May sun. In her old wallet she only carried 150 pesos. Hanging from his neck, he squeezed 1 double pallet key tied to 1 worn orange cord that he had found hidden in the drawer of Arthur’s nightstand after his death. Her own children had stripped her of absolutely everything, leaving her on the street in the winter of her life. With her chest compressed and breathing cut off, Carmen took 2 public transport trucks to get to Tonalá. The journey was full of painful memories. Standing in the direction indicated, the scenery was even more devastating than I remembered. 1 corrosive rust chipped sheet gate, thick weeds growing between the cracked concrete on the bench and 1 lock that looked totally useless from so old. Both of his hands were shaking He wept silently for the infinite cruelty of his blood and the suffocating panic of facing old age without 1 safe roof. With the erratic pulse, he inserted the key into the rusty lock. To his absolute surprise, the inner mechanism turned with 1 perfect smoothness, as if it had been meticulously lubricated 1 day earlier. Carmen pushed the heavy and noisy tin door, hoping to be greeted by the smell of rot, rats and mountains of rusty iron. But when his eyes adjusted to the darkness and he managed to focus on what was hidden deep in that terrain, his breath cut violently down his throat. Her legs weakened instantly. I couldn’t believe what was about to happen… Part 2 is in the comments 👇

RÉSZ Carmen 74 éves volt, amikor legidősebb fia, Mateo, odament hozzá a jaliscói Guadalajara belvárosában található elegáns közjegyzői irodában. Jeges…