Claudia Pineiro

A woman returns home to confront the past, a family, and the reverberations of a death that she had abandoned decades before.

A Little Luck

Writing a diary implies some belief that your life is worth of being recounted. The conviction that your life, as hard as it has been or is, deserves to be recorded day by day, scene by scene, from the perspective of the person who lives it. And I don't have that conviction.

I was never interested in the events so much as the reasons. And history always has a reason. Life, on the other hand, doesn't...I want you to know, to finally understand that some people are missing reasons in their own lives. 

'Total repair will depend on you, there are some spots I can't reach, someday you'll have to decide if you want to keep living the years you have left this way or if there's something different you want to do. I know what I'd like you to do, but it's your decision. It will always be your decision.'

Maybe that's all happiness is, an instant inhabited, a random moment in which words are unnecessary because it would take too many of them to describe it. To accept the instant in its pure, condensed form, without allowing language and its obsession with narration to dilute the intensity.

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