My name is Arturo Santander. I am seventy years old, and for most of my life I believed that being a good father meant enduring discomfort in silence. I believed it meant giving way, stepping aside, and swallowing pride whenever family needed something from me. I believed sacrifice was love. That belief collapsed on a quiet Tuesday morning, the kind of morning that should have been ordinary. I was still half-asleep when my daughter Natalia stood in my doorway, her tone calm, efficient, almost professional, as if she were reorganizing a closet instead of dismantling a man’s sense of self. She told me I would need to vacate my bedroom. Not asked—told. Andrés’s parents were moving in, she said, and they needed the master bedroom. Those words landed with no emotion, no apology, no awareness of the history embedded in those walls. The room she was taking from me was where I had slept for forty-five years, where I had shared my life with my wife Carmen, where I had watched her fade from illness, where I had held her hand as she took her last breath.
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