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manchitas, o sentada en la cuca 188 , se
estaba ispiando por un hoyo de la paré
a los que pasaban por el camino.
Tenían en el rancho un espejito nublado
del tamaño de un colón y ella no se
pudo ver nunca la joroba, pero sentía
que algo le pesaba en las espaldas, un
cuenterete que le hacía poner cabeza
de tortuga y que le encaramaba los
brazos: la petaca.
* * *
Tules la llevó un día onde el sobador.
—Léi traido para ver si usté le quita la
puya. Pueda ser que una sobada...
—Hay que hacer perimentos defíciles,
vos, pero si me la dejás unos ocho días,
te la sano todo lo posible.
Tules le dijo que se quedara.
Ella se jaló de las mangas del tata; no se
quería quedar en la casa del sobador y
es que era la primera vez que salía lejos,
y que estaba con un extraño.
—¡Papa, paíto, ayéveme, no me deje!
—Ai tate, te digo; vuá venir por vos el
lunes.
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circles on it with her finger or sit on the
little stool to look through the tiny hole
in the wall at those who walked by on
the road
The family only owned a little foggy
mirror of the size of a silver dollar, so
she wasn’t able to ever see her hump.
She felt that something heavy sat on
her back, something that gave her a
turtlehead and that hiked up her arms.
* * *
Tules took her to the witch doctor.
“I brung her here to see if you can
make her thorn go away. Maybe with a
sobada 189 massage…”
“We will need to perform complicated
experiments, but if you leave her with
me for eight days I will try to heal her as
much as possible.”
Tules ordered her to stay.
She grabbed onto her pa’s sleeves. She
didn’t want to stay in the medicine
man’s house. It was the first time away
from home and she was going to be
with a stranger.
“Dad, daddy, take me with ya. Don’t
leave me!”
“Stay! I’ll come git ya on Monday.”
188. Silla cuadrada de madera sin respaldo.
189. A “sobada” is a kind of massage in which herbs, ointments or other medicinal plants are used. It
usually requires a ritual that includes prayers.