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(light music)

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- [Luli] When I dream of home,

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something always slips away from me.

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Just beneath the surface,
faces of my family,

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old stories, the land,
mysteries about to be revealed.

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And sometimes I dream of Santa Rita,

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patron saint of Chihuahua, my home town.

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She's also the patron
saint of unhappy marriages,

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boils, and desperate causes.

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(phone rattling)

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It all started when I received a message

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that my favorite uncle,
my Tio Oscar, had died.

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Immediately, I called his widow, Ofelia.

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(phone ringing)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(woman cries)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(church bells ringing)

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I remember visiting Tio Oscar in Guaymas.

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At five in the morning he
woke me up with a greeting:

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"Time to get up and fight," he said.

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For Oscar, each day was a conquest.

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I loved that about him.

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Family rumors were
spreading like wildfire.

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You see, a lot of intrigue
surrounded Tio Oscar's death;

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betrayal, revenge, devils and angels.

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The smell of mystery was stronger

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than in any of my dreams.

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So, of course, I had to
go to Mexico to find out

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what really happened.

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(church bells ringing)

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(light music)

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(upbeat music)

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(man hollers in foreign language)

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I'm reluctant, maybe a bit fearful,

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to return to my childhood home.

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Everything we left behind is
now gone, except my memories.

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After raising eight children,

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my grandmother, on her death bed,

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said to my Aunt Lus, "The only
thing I leave to you of value

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are my three pairs of orthopedic shoes."

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Aunt Lus had the shoes
bronzed and distributed

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amongst her brothers and sisters.

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I'm happy to see that some
places haven't changed.

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Cine Azteca, the first place I saw film.

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(upbeat music)

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All those years I would
immerse myself in melodrama.

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In that magical darkness I
found what would obsess me

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for the rest of my life: the movies.

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(upbeat music)

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- [Luli] History is followed
like melodrama here.

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The passion for the great heroic legends

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is what people hold onto.

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(light music)

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The provinces have long
been the stronghold

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of conservative values.

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In Chihuahua, as I soon found out,

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these values were a thin
veneer or respectability

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which obscured the sordid details
of my Uncle Oscar's death.

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(thunder rumbling)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] I feel disgusted looking at

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the police photos of my Tio Oscar.

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But I have to admit, I'm also fascinated.

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] In my mind, Uncle Oscar is still

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that young enthusiastic
man I knew as a child.

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It's impossible for me to
think that he killed himself.

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Oscar was 12
years old when his father,

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Lumberto Ruiz, died, leaving
a family of eight children.

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It was Margarita, the eldest,

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who took over Oscar's upbringing.

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She worked as a governor's secretary

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to save the money it
would take to send him

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to the school of agriculture.

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(machine rattling)
(light music)

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- [Luli] My father and Uncle Oscar

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had been good friends for
years, since their teens.

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A lot of time and a lot of trust.

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] For their honeymoon,

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Catalina and Oscar went to Los Angeles

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to work and make the money
they needed to buy land.

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At that time, desert land in Sonora

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was just beginning to
developed for agriculture.

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Oscar became one of the first exporters

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of vegetables to the United States.

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Tio Oscar
bought his first tractor

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to farm the land and
load grain onto boats.

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They tell the story about
the time the tractor

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was being lifted onto
a boat and it slipped

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and fell into the water.

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The captain of the boat paid for the cost

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of the tractor in full.

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The next day, Oscar dove into
the harbor and retrieved it,

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and that's how he got
two tractors in one day.

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(light music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Before the
funeral, Panchito refused

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to believe that Oscar
had committed suicide.

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But there must have been some
very convincing chit chat

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around the graveyard,
because on his way back

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from the funeral Panchito
said he had changed his mind.

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Early in their marriage,

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Oscar discovered he wasn't
able to have children.

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But that didn't stop my Aunt Catalina;

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they adopted two babies.

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First Oscar Pablo, then Ilia Catalina.

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] After he built the landing strip

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for the movie set, Oscar told the family:

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"Now I'm finally a millionaire."

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How was it that a man
that was like a farmer

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into construction, how
did he become mayor?

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- He was a friend of the Governors.

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That's the way you do it in Mexico.

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And he also got his
reputation by making streets

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and contracts and things.

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Usually we called that
(speaking foreign language),

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the finger, when somebody fingers you

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as you're gonna be this
or that and you become it.

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Including the president.

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Whoever this president was,
he'll become the president

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win or lose, believe me.

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(woman laughs)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(woman sings in foreign language)

00:20:17.576 --> 00:20:18.902
(light music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(plane engine rumbling)

00:22:14.413 --> 00:22:18.580
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:22:22.871 --> 00:22:26.871
(man speaking foreign language)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] We found out that
Aunt Catalina had cancer.

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At her deathbed, Oscar
held her hand, whispering,

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(woman speaking foreign language).

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You and I forever.

00:24:12.368 --> 00:24:16.535
(woman speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Two months after his wife died,

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Oscar married Ofelia.

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The family was stunned.

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She was a former carnival
queen, and not only that,

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she was 20 years younger than my uncle.

00:25:05.906 --> 00:25:08.489
(upbeat music)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] What was the
gossip that went around

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at that time?

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- None.

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Even before he married Ofelia
he wasn't seen with her

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very much in public anywhere.

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He was very a discreet man, except for he

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lowered his pants at the office.

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(woman laughs)

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That aside, he was a very discreet man.

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And in a small town like
this, it's hard to keep

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things from being known,
especially in a business

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like I have in a hotel.

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Everything is known, and I
knew nothing, I was surprised.

00:26:07.706 --> 00:26:10.206
(light music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Later, Oscar told my mother,

00:26:45.827 --> 00:26:48.290
"At last, I have found
someone who reminds me

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of our sister, Margarita."

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My father told me that my uncle told him

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that Ofelia wanted her own children,

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but she was planning to go to Texas

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to be artificially inseminated.

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Later, she had a baby girl and a boy.

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Josefina, do you think he was depressed

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because he couldn't he have any children?

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- I never saw...

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Oscar depressed, never.

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He adopted the kids, he loved them,

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and then if he couldn't have children

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because of her, you mean...

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- No, him, too.
- Well how come

00:27:25.410 --> 00:27:26.960
he's got kids afterwards?

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- [Luli] I don't they're
his natural children.

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- Well why not?

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I was the godmother.

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They have to be his,
they even look like him.

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- [Luli] No.

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- You mean, Ofelia after
being married to one

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went out and had another
guy make the babies?

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- [Luli] No, no, no.

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You know they had this
artificial insemination.

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- Oh bull, they didn't have
artificial insemination

00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:47.853
by that time.

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Oh, no, that's also his kids.

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- [Luli] Well, it must
have been a miracle.

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The only time I ever met Ofelia was right

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after their marriage.

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She was lively and lots of fun,

00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:04.303
more like my friends than
my uncle's generation.

00:28:05.652 --> 00:28:08.235
(upbeat music)

00:28:11.460 --> 00:28:13.780
There were rumors that Ofelia and my uncle

00:28:13.780 --> 00:28:16.700
had made an agreement; she would take care

00:28:16.700 --> 00:28:20.023
of him and the children
in exchange for marriage.

00:28:21.290 --> 00:28:23.730
But in her husband's circle of friends,

00:28:23.730 --> 00:28:25.573
Ofelia felt ostracized.

00:28:26.780 --> 00:28:28.920
So, after 40 years in Guaymas,

00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:32.376
my uncle decided to
move back to Chihuahua.

00:28:32.376 --> 00:28:36.376
(man speaking foreign language)

00:30:07.037 --> 00:30:09.430
- [Luli] Josefina, you were saying that

00:30:09.430 --> 00:30:12.020
perhaps Ofelia knows who might've done it.

00:30:12.020 --> 00:30:14.610
It seems to me, like if you know that

00:30:14.610 --> 00:30:17.990
you would wanna do something
about it, don't you think?

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- I don't know, she
might know and not want

00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:23.853
to do anymore to let him
lay in peace, you know?

00:30:23.853 --> 00:30:27.570
To rest his soul because of the kids.

00:30:27.570 --> 00:30:29.430
Or she may be afraid to.

00:30:29.430 --> 00:30:31.580
That is up to her; whichever she knows

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she has not discussed it with me.

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But just like in the States,

00:30:36.360 --> 00:30:38.370
if somebody threatens you
or threatens your children

00:30:38.370 --> 00:30:41.470
you don't do anything about it.

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'Cause I do know a lot
of people owed him money

00:30:43.300 --> 00:30:47.430
and never paid him
because he was not a man

00:30:47.430 --> 00:30:51.053
that was that suspicious
enough to defend himself well.

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A lotta people can take advantage of you.

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- [Luli] I was told that Senor Cavallero

00:30:56.760 --> 00:30:59.800
owed my uncle more than $200,000.

00:30:59.800 --> 00:31:02.920
For 10 years, Oscar
tried to get him to pay.

00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:06.650
In one desperate attempt, he
went to Cavallero's office

00:31:06.650 --> 00:31:08.438
and pulled a gun on him.

00:31:08.438 --> 00:31:12.438
(man speaking foreign language)

00:31:54.320 --> 00:31:56.450
- [Luli] Nothing came of the altercation,

00:31:56.450 --> 00:31:59.090
except a court order to pay the debt.

00:31:59.090 --> 00:32:01.270
So I guess Cavallero was lucky,

00:32:01.270 --> 00:32:03.313
my uncle died before he could collect.

00:32:04.708 --> 00:32:08.875
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:32:21.550 --> 00:32:23.720
- [Luli] I'm very curious
about meeting Ofelia

00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:25.233
after all this time.

00:32:26.130 --> 00:32:29.340
She probably knew my
uncle better than anyone.

00:32:29.340 --> 00:32:32.879
I'm wondering about her side of the story.

00:32:32.879 --> 00:32:37.046
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:35:04.578 --> 00:35:05.411
- Damn!

00:35:05.411 --> 00:35:07.820
And when she said "No, I
don't wanna be interviewed."

00:35:07.820 --> 00:35:10.050
- [Luli] Yeah, so there you are.

00:35:10.050 --> 00:35:11.870
- [Man] She didn't seem very surprised.

00:35:11.870 --> 00:35:13.653
- No, not at all.
- No, not at all.

00:35:17.620 --> 00:35:19.320
- So when are you gonna try again?

00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:20.220
- [Luli] Tomorrow.

00:35:21.453 --> 00:35:25.620
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:36:23.571 --> 00:36:26.427
(mysterious music)

00:36:26.427 --> 00:36:28.350
- [Luli] I wondered how anyone would know

00:36:28.350 --> 00:36:31.593
that he landed on his knees
if they weren't there.

00:36:33.272 --> 00:36:37.272
(man speaking foreign language)

00:36:57.930 --> 00:37:00.430
- [Luli] The ironic
thing is that the place

00:37:00.430 --> 00:37:05.430
where he came to die is run
by my cousin, his own nephew.

00:37:06.036 --> 00:37:10.036
(man speaking foreign language)

00:38:47.046 --> 00:38:51.046
(man speaking foreign language)

00:39:51.695 --> 00:39:54.654
(light dramatic music)

00:39:54.654 --> 00:39:58.654
(men speaking foreign language)

00:40:16.861 --> 00:40:19.361
(light music)

00:40:24.358 --> 00:40:28.525
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:41:05.560 --> 00:41:08.227
(phone humming)

00:41:19.105 --> 00:41:23.272
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:42:12.912 --> 00:42:14.350
(light dramatic music)
(gun bangs)

00:42:14.350 --> 00:42:18.517
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:43:02.270 --> 00:43:06.270
(man speaking foreign language)

00:43:52.564 --> 00:43:54.653
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:43:54.653 --> 00:43:56.986
(gun bangs)

00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:12.170
- [Luli] It's easy to have
someone killed in Mexico.

00:44:12.170 --> 00:44:15.933
Like Pancho Villa, and
more recently, Colosio.

00:44:17.161 --> 00:44:17.994
(gun bangs)

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I wonder if I'll ever know
what happened to my uncle.

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(eerie music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(light dramatic music)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Right after my uncle died,

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my mother told me a story.

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My father, who was recovering
from a recent surgery,

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was outside with my mom.

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All of a sudden, there was a big bang.

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A man had crashed into the big tree.

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He flew out of his car
only two feet from them.

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When my father went to
look, a heavy branch

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fell from the tree,
hitting him on the head.

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He fell to the ground and crawled away.

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My mother ran over to
see what had happened.

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At first, she thought
she was seeing things.

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On the ground was a black man,
his matted hair in dreads.

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There was blood all over the place.

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Around his neck, a large
black snake was slithering,

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and live little goldfish were swarming

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all over his blood-spattered head.

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It was at that instant my mother said

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that the image of Ofelia
flashed before her.

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"But why?" I asked her.

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"I don't know," she said.

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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- [Luli] One day, Oscar Pablo left home,

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with his only possession;

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a portrait of his mother
Catalina under his arm.

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He never saw his father again.

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We found out that he lives in Tijuana,

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and after several business attempts,

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he's driving a taxi
under a different name.

00:51:30.732 --> 00:51:34.899
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:52:11.043 --> 00:52:15.043
(man speaking foreign language)

00:52:46.730 --> 00:52:49.317
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:52:49.317 --> 00:52:53.677
(man speaking foreign language)

00:52:53.677 --> 00:52:57.844
(woman speaking foreign language)

00:53:18.117 --> 00:53:22.117
(man speaking foreign language)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] But why on earth did Oscar

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not stand up for his children,
protect them from Ofelia?

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That's what I don't really understand.

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Even though I know more about him now

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than I ever did before,
I'm no closer to knowing

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who he really was.

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(thunder rumbling)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(light dramatic music)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(Luli laughs)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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(man speaking foreign language)

00:58:41.550 --> 00:58:45.717
(woman speaking foreign language)

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(light music)

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(woman sings in foreign language)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] There's a legend that the owner

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of a Chihuahua bridal shop had
a daughter she dearly loved.

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On the day of her wedding,
the girl died in an accident.

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The bereaved mother, they said,

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had her embalmed, dressed as a bride,

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and displayed in her store window.

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A tribute to virginal love.

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(woman sings in foreign language)

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(audience clapping)

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(woman speaking foreign language)

01:00:14.384 --> 01:00:18.384
(man speaking foreign language)

01:01:00.232 --> 01:01:04.232
(man speaking foreign language)

01:01:47.577 --> 01:01:51.744
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:02:25.919 --> 01:02:30.086
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:03:28.527 --> 01:03:32.694
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:54.766
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:05:11.443 --> 01:05:13.943
(light music)

01:05:16.815 --> 01:05:20.982
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:05:42.344 --> 01:05:46.511
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:05:52.521 --> 01:05:56.521
(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Sin, that's really
bad news for a Catholic.

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Even a lapse one gets
shivers up her spine.

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Have I crossed over the
boundary of concern,

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into manipulation?

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It is a sin to look for the truth?

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I've gone too far to stop.

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Why did my Uncle Oscar
become an acupuncturist?

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Was it is insatiable curiosity?

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Or was it just another vain attempt

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to forestall the inevitable?

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(man speaking foreign language)

01:07:59.145 --> 01:08:02.404
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:08:02.404 --> 01:08:06.404
(man speaking foreign language)

01:08:40.781 --> 01:08:44.781
(man speaking foreign language)

01:09:15.930 --> 01:09:20.097
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:10:14.582 --> 01:10:18.582
(man speaking foreign language)

01:10:25.855 --> 01:10:30.022
(woman speaking foreign language)

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- Well, a man like your
uncle does not commit suicide

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when he's planning to do
a lot of other things.

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He was running his clinic,
he did have the habit,

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or it was his custom
every six months to have

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some injections put in him
for to make him younger,

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he was convinced they were good for you.

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The embryo of cattle,
or something like that.

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That might've caused
cancer, we don't know.

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(woman speaking foreign language)

01:12:38.959 --> 01:12:42.959
(man speaking foreign language)

01:13:14.377 --> 01:13:18.544
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:13:39.766 --> 01:13:43.933
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:14:07.218 --> 01:14:11.218
(man speaking foreign language)

01:14:25.447 --> 01:14:29.614
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:15:02.159 --> 01:15:06.159
(man speaking foreign language)

01:15:37.165 --> 01:15:41.332
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:16:05.778 --> 01:16:09.778
(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] Oscar, Oscar the farmer?

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Oscar the politician?

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The businessman?

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The acupuncturist?

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And now Oscar the homosexual?

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Who is this Tio Oscar that I loved?

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(man speaking foreign language)

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- [Luli] It sorta was shocking to hear

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that he had killed-
- Somebody's really been

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telling you a log of bologna.

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- [Luli] A lot of people
have been telling me

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a lot of different things.

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- A lot of crap, too.

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It's not true.

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Oscar was one of the, I've
known a lot of fine men,

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but he's among them and I have nothing

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but good memories of him.

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He liked sports, he liked good food,

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he'd like dancing, he'd like fun,

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and he'd like to work his ass off.

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He worked real hard and
everybody around him,

01:18:15.500 --> 01:18:16.890
he worked him, too.

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We all had to work real hard
when we worked with him.

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(light music)

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(man speaking foreign language)

01:18:43.336 --> 01:18:47.503
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:19:04.200 --> 01:19:08.200
(man speaking foreign language)

01:19:56.791 --> 01:20:00.958
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:20:29.791 --> 01:20:33.958
(woman speaking foreign language)

01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:09.500
(light music)

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- [Luli] I came back to
Mexico with a naive idea

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that if I pursued all
the clues and found out

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all the facts, I'd uncover the truth.

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Just like in the movies.

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Did Oscar commit suicide or was he killed

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by a hired assassin?

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Maybe I'll never know.

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The only thing I'm sure of
is that by his own choices

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he contributed to his destiny.

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The family still holds
tightly to its secrets,

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and once again, I realize
there are no clear answers,

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no simple solutions to life's mysteries.

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Just half glimpse truths
and tantalizing questions.

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(light music)

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(woman sings in foreign language)

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(light music)