{"id":23761,"date":"2012-03-26T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/damau.org\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2019-03-04T00:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T00:49:30","slug":"xay-ra-vao-mua-thu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/23761\/xay-ra-vao-mua-thu-2","title":{"rendered":"X\u1ea3y ra vào mùa thu…\/ … happen, in the autumn …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"It-happens-in-Autumn1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

LND:<\/strong>  D\u01b0\u1edbi \u0111\u00e2y l\u00e0 b\u1ea3n d\u1ecbch Vi\u1ec7t ng\u1eef t\u1eeb k\u1ecbch b\u1ea3n video \u201c \u2026Happen, in The Autumn<\/a>\u2026\u201d c\u1ee7a \u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1 cho l\u1edbp Women\u2019s Autobiography (T\u1ef1 s\u1ef1 Ph\u1ee5 n\u1eef).  Video<\/a> c\u1ee7a \u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1 c\u00f3 th\u1ec3 \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c coi nh\u01b0 m\u1ed9t th\u1ec3 hi\u1ec7n c\u1ee7a \u201cl\u01b0\u1ee1ng th\u1ee9c\u201d (dual consciousness), v\u00e0 v\u1ec1 kh\u1ea3 n\u0103ng c\u00e1i “t\u00f4i” c\u00f9ng “h\u00ecnh \u1ea3nh v\u1ec1 t\u00f4i”(self and self image) kh\u00f4ng \u0111\u1ed3ng hi\u1ec7n. N\u00f3 c\u0169ng \u0111\u1eb7t c\u00e2u h\u1ecfi v\u1ec1 b\u1ea3n ch\u1ea5t c\u1ee7a t\u1ef1 s\u1ef1 (autobiography), l\u00e0 m\u1ed9t phi\u00ean b\u1ea3n \u0111\u00e3 \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c bi\u00ean t\u1eadp t\u1eeb hi\u1ec7n th\u1ef1c, thay v\u00ec hi\u1ec7n th\u1ef1c, l\u00e0 th\u1ee9 kh\u00f4ng bao gi\u1edd ch\u1ee9ng th\u1ef1c \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c. C\u00e1ch video s\u1eed d\u1ee5ng v\u00e0 t\u01b0\u01a1ng ph\u1ea3n h\u00ecnh \u1ea3nh v\u1edbi \u00e2m b\u1ea3n, v\u0103n b\u1ea3n kh\u00e1c chen v\u00e0o (\u0111o\u1ea1n t\u1ea3 gi\u1ea5c m\u01a1 \u2013 b\u1ea3n d\u1ecbch Anh ng\u1eef  Slippery Elm<\/a> c\u1ee7a \u0110inh T\u1eeb B\u00edch Th\u00fay), v\u00e0 c\u00e1ch ph\u00e2n \u0111o\u1ea1n Anh ng\u1eef b\u1eb1ng nh\u1eefng h\u00ecnh \u1ea3nh c\u1ee7a m\u1ed9t ng\u00f4n ng\u1eef kh\u00e1c, qua \u00e2m nh\u1ea1c, gi\u1ecdng k\u1ec3, c\u0169ng l\u00e0 nh\u1eefng y\u1ebfu t\u1ed1 li\u00ean h\u1ec7 \u0111\u1ebfn l\u01b0\u1ee1ng th\u1ee9c c\u1ee7a ch\u00ednh t\u00e1c gi\u1ea3 b\u1ea3n t\u1ef1 s\u1ef1.<\/p>\n

Khi d\u1ecbch sang Vi\u1ec7t ng\u1eef t\u1eeb k\u1ecbch b\u1ea3n video Anh ng\u1eef c\u1ee7a \u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1, \u0110inh T\u1eeb B\u00edch Th\u00fay l\u1ea7n n\u00e0y kh\u00f4ng ph\u1ea3i \u201cd\u1ecbch\u201d \u0111o\u1ea1n t\u1ea3 gi\u1ea5c m\u01a1 v\u1ec1 nh\u1eefng c\u00e2y du, v\u00ec b\u1ea3n d\u1ecbch Slippery Elm<\/a> \u0111\u00e3 \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c ho\u00e1n l\u1ea1i th\u00e0nh nguy\u00ean b\u1ea3n Vi\u1ec7t ng\u1eef truy\u1ec7n \u201cC\u00e2y Du Th\u1ee9 M\u1ea5y Tr\u00ean Th\u1ebf Gi\u1edbi<\/a>\u201d c\u1ee7a \u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1. Thi\u1ec3n ngh\u0129, m\u1ed9t kh\u00eda c\u1ea1nh kh\u00e1c c\u1ee7a kh\u00e1i ni\u1ec7m \u201ct\u1ef1 s\u1ef1 ph\u1ee5 n\u1eef\u201d c\u0169ng bao g\u1ed3m l\u01b0\u1ee1ng th\u1ee9c gi\u1eefa ng\u00f4n ng\u1eef c\u1ee7a t\u00e1c gi\u1ea3 v\u00e0 ng\u00f4n ng\u1eef c\u1ee7a d\u1ecbch gi\u1ea3, gi\u1eefa s\u1eafc th\u00e1i tr\u00ecnh b\u00e0y v\u00e0 s\u1eafc th\u00e1i \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c di\u1ec5n gi\u1ea3i. Do \u0111\u00f3, \u201ct\u1ef1 s\u1ef1\u201d kh\u00f4ng ch\u1ec9 l\u00e0 m\u1ed9t quan \u0111i\u1ec3m c\u00e1 nh\u00e2n, m\u00e0 c\u00f2n l\u00e0 m\u1ed1i t\u01b0\u01a1ng t\u00e1c gi\u1eefa nh\u1eefng kinh nghi\u1ec7m, tuy \u0111a s\u1eafc v\u00e0 \u0111a di\u1ec7n, nh\u01b0ng \u0111\u1ed3ng c\u1ea3nh ng\u1ed9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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B\u1ea3n d\u1ecbch Vi\u1ec7t ng\u1eef c\u1ee7a \u0110inh T\u1eeb B\u00edch Th\u00fay<\/em><\/p>\n

M\u00f9a thu.<\/p>\n

M\u00f9a lu\u00f4n g\u1ee3i l\u1ea1i bi\u1ebfn c\u1ed1.<\/p>\n

Ng\u00e0y, gi\u1edd, l\u00fd l\u1ecbch ng\u01b0\u1eddi b\u1ecb m\u1ea5t t\u00edch trong \u0111\u00eam. V\u1ee5 b\u1eaft c\u00f3c.<\/p>\n

C\u00e2u chuy\u1ec7n v\u1ec1 m\u1ed9t ng\u01b0\u1eddi m\u1eb9 v\u00e0 n\u1ed7i s\u1ee3 c\u1ee7a b\u00e0 ta.<\/p>\n

T\u00ecnh m\u1eabu t\u1eed \u0111\u00e3 bi\u1ebfn \u0111\u1ed5i t\u00f4i b\u1eb1ng c\u00e1ch k\u1ef3 l\u1ea1 nh\u1ea5t. T\u00ecnh m\u1eabu t\u1eed bi\u1ebfn th\u1ebf gi\u1edbi th\u00e0nh c\u00e1i b\u1eaby hi\u1ec3m ngh\u00e8o, m\u1ed9t m\u1ea1ng l\u01b0\u1edbi \u0111\u1ea7y d\u1eaby nh\u1eefng \u00e2m m\u01b0u v\u00e0 t\u1ed9i \u00e1c, m\u1ed9t c\u00e1nh r\u1eebng v\u1edbi nh\u1eefng th\u00e2n c\u00e2y c\u00f3 r\u1ec5 c\u1eafm s\u00e2u v\u00e0o l\u00f2ng \u0111\u1ea5t m\u1eb9.<\/p>\n

Con trai t\u00f4i nh\u01b0 m\u1ed9t th\u00e2n c\u00e2y. T\u00f4i th\u00edch ngh\u0129 v\u1ec1 n\u00f3 nh\u01b0 m\u1ed9t c\u00e2y du non.<\/p>\n

Khi m\u1ed9t th\u00e2n c\u00e2y b\u1ecb ch\u1eb7t \u0111\u1ee9t, khi m\u1ed9t ng\u01b0\u1eddi b\u1ecb b\u1eaft c\u00f3c, th\u00ec m\u00ecnh ph\u1ea3i l\u00e0m sao. L\u00e0m th\u1ebf n\u00e0o \u0111\u1ec3 tr\u00ecnh b\u00e1o?<\/p>\n

\u0110\u00e2y l\u00e0 tang ch\u1ee9ng, tinh ch\u1ea5t v\u00e0 ch\u00e2n dung n\u00f3.<\/p>\n

C\u00e2y du l\u00e0 tinh ch\u1ea5t n\u00f3.<\/p>\n

T\u00f4i s\u1ebd cho b\u1ea1n coi ch\u00e2n dung n\u00f3: c\u00e1i m\u1eb7t n\u1ea1 n\u00f3 \u0111\u00e3 l\u00e0m trong l\u1edbp h\u1ed9i h\u1ecda.<\/p>\n

V\u00e0 t\u00f4i s\u1ebd chia s\u1ebb v\u1edbi b\u1ea1n m\u1ed9t b\u00ed m\u1eadt: b\u1ed9 s\u01b0u t\u1ea7m heo cho ng\u01b0\u1eddi ch\u00e0o \u0111\u1eddi trong n\u0103m heo. Ch\u00fang t\u00f4i c\u00f9ng s\u01b0u t\u1ea7m nh\u1eefng con heo n\u00e0y. Ch\u00fang \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c mua t\u1eeb Vi\u1ec7t Nam, \u0110\u00e0i Loan, Ch\u00ed L\u1ee3i, M\u1ec5 T\u00e2y C\u01a1, M\u1ef9, Maya, \u00c2u Ch\u00e2u, Phi Ch\u00e2u, t\u1ea5t c\u1ea3 m\u1ecdi n\u01a1i \u2026. Ch\u00fang t\u00f4i th\u00edch nh\u1eefng con heo l\u00e0m b\u1eb1ng g\u1ed7. M\u00e0u g\u1ed7 v\u00e0 k\u1ebft c\u1ea5u g\u1ed7 l\u00e0m ch\u00fang t\u00f4i ngh\u0129 \u0111\u1ebfn c\u00e2y, \u0111\u1ea5t, v\u00e0 r\u1ec5.<\/p>\n

\u0110i\u1ec1u n\u00e0y cho ch\u00fang t\u00f4i th\u1ea5y r\u1eb1ng \u0111\u00e3 c\u00f3 th\u1eddi ch\u00fang t\u00f4i m\u01a1 c\u00f9ng m\u1ed9t gi\u1ea5c m\u01a1:<\/p>\n

L\u00fac \u0111\u00f3 ngo\u00e0i c\u1eeda s\u1ed5 c\u00f3 m\u1ed9t c\u00e2y du y\u1ebfu \u1edbt, m\u00e0u xanh non, chao \u0111\u1ea3o gi\u1eefa nh\u1eefng lu\u1ed3ng gi\u00f3 \u0111\u1ea7u h\u1ea1. C\u00e2y du \u0111\u1ee9ng \u0111\u00f3 th\u1eadt l\u1ea1, l\u00e0 \u0111i\u1ec3m n\u1ed1i gi\u1eefa c\u0103n ph\u00f2ng c\u00f3 c\u1eeda k\u00ednh v\u00e0 l\u1ed1i \u0111i s\u00e2u hun h\u00fat theo t\u1ea7m m\u1eaft th\u1ea3 d\u00e0i. C\u00e2y du c\u00f9ng tu\u1ed5i v\u1edbi th\u1eb1ng b\u00e9 m\u00e0 c\u00f3 ai hay. <\/em><\/p>\n

Th\u1eb1ng b\u00e9 th\u1ea5y b\u1ea7y \u0111\u00e0n ti\u1ebfn v\u00e0o ph\u00f2ng, ng\u1ed3i quanh gi\u01b0\u1eddng, l\u1ea3o \u0111\u1ea3o. Ch\u00fang \u0111\u00e3 \u0111\u1ebfn v\u00e0 chui v\u00e0o b\u00ean trong b\u1eb1ng m\u1ecdi ng\u1ea3 tr\u1ed1ng, m\u00f4i mi\u1ec7ng, m\u0169i, l\u1ed7 tai, kh\u00f3e m\u1eaft, l\u1ed7 \u0111\u00edt v\u00e0 nh\u1eefng l\u1ed7 ch\u00e2n l\u00f4ng. Nh\u1eefng con v\u1eadt b\u1ed1n ch\u00e2n \u0111ang \u0111i l\u1ea1i trong ng\u01b0\u1eddi m\u00ecnh. M\u00f3ng ch\u00fang c\u00e0o v\u00e0o th\u00e0nh v\u00e1ch. Ch\u00fang l\u00e0 nh\u1eefng con v\u1eadt kh\u00f4ng \u0111\u1ea7u. Nh\u1eefng c\u00e1i \u0111\u1ea7u r\u1eddi r\u00e3, \u0111ang ch\u1ea3y ra m\u1ed9t th\u1ee9 s\u1eefa s\u1ec7t v\u00e0 nh\u1ea7y, m\u00e0ng m\u00e1u ch\u00fang lan t\u1ecfa nh\u01b0 r\u1ec5 c\u00e2y.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nh\u1eefng con v\u1eadt \u0111i b\u0103ng b\u0103ng qua nh\u1eefng c\u00e1nh \u0111\u1ed3ng mi\u1ec1n Trung M\u1ef9. Ch\u00fang \u0111i b\u0103ng b\u0103ng qua r\u1eebng c\u00e2y du. Ch\u00fang \u0111\u1ea1p ng\u00e3 r\u1ea1p c\u00e2y c\u1ed1i tr\u00ean \u0111\u01b0\u1eddng \u0111i c\u1ee7a ch\u00fang. Nh\u1eefng c\u00e2y du n\u1eb1m ng\u1ea3, ch\u1ea3y nh\u1ef1a xanh l\u00eanh l\u00e1ng m\u1eb7t \u0111\u1ea5t. Nh\u1eefng con v\u1eadt d\u1eabm \u0111\u1ea1p l\u00ean b\u1eb1ng th\u1ec3 l\u1ef1c \u0111i\u00ean cu\u1ed3ng. Khi ch\u00fang \u0111i kh\u1ecfi th\u00ec nh\u1eefng c\u00e2y du n\u1eb1m \u00e9p d\u1eb9p tr\u00ean \u0111\u1ea5t nh\u01b0 nh\u1eefng b\u1ea1t v\u1ea3i tr\u1eafng to\u00e1t. M\u1ed9t b\u1ea1t v\u1ea3i bay l\u00ean l\u00e0 \u0111\u00e0, \u00fap v\u00e0o m\u1eb7t th\u1eb1ng b\u00e9, gi\u1eef h\u01a1i th\u1edf n\u00f3 l\u1ea1i, \u0111\u1ea9y h\u01a1i th\u1edf c\u1ee7a n\u00f3 v\u00e0o l\u1ea1i trong ng\u01b0\u1eddi n\u00f3. Nh\u1ed1t k\u00edn h\u01a1i th\u1edf n\u00f3.<\/em><\/p>\n

C\u1ea3 r\u1eebng c\u00e2y du \u0111\u00e3 thu l\u1ea1i th\u00e0nh kh\u1ea9u trang \u00fap ch\u1ee5p th\u1eb1ng b\u00e9. N\u00f3 m\u01a1 nh\u1eefng gi\u1ea5c m\u01a1 thi\u1ebfu kh\u00f4ng kh\u00ed<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u0110\u1ed3ng b\u1ecdn heo l\u00e0 s\u1ee9c m\u1ea1nh c\u1ee7a th\u1eb1ng b\u00e9, th\u1ec3 ch\u1ea5t n\u00f3, v\u1eadn m\u1ec7nh n\u00f3.<\/p>\n

C\u00e2y du l\u00e0 linh h\u1ed3n n\u00f3. Linh h\u1ed3n b\u1ecb d\u1eabm \u0111\u1ea1p b\u1edfi v\u1eadn m\u1ec7nh.<\/p>\n

Khi ngh\u0129 \u0111\u1ebfn chuy\u1ec7n b\u1eaft c\u00f3c, ch\u00fang ta ngh\u0129 \u0111\u1ebfn nh\u1eefng \u0111\u1ee9a tr\u1ebb b\u1ecb m\u1eb9 m\u00ecn ch\u1ed9p b\u1eaft, v\u1edbi b\u1ea1o l\u1ef1c. Kh\u00f4ng ai ngh\u0129 r\u1eb1ng b\u1eaft c\u00f3c c\u00f3 th\u1ec3 l\u00e0 m\u1ed9t qu\u00e1 tr\u00ecnh, ng\u00e0y n\u00e0y qua ng\u00e0y kh\u00e1c, nh\u01b0 chuy\u1ec7n b\u1ecb h\u00fat h\u1ebft d\u01b0\u1ee1ng kh\u00ed, h\u00fat h\u1ebft m\u00e1u, b\u00f4i x\u00f3a nh\u1eefng chi ti\u1ebft t\u1eeb k\u00fd \u1ee9c ch\u00fang ta, nh\u01b0 nh\u1eefng l\u00e0n c\u00e2y r\u1ee5ng l\u00e1 trong m\u00f9a thu.<\/p>\n

Khi b\u00e1o c\u00e1o v\u1ec1 ng\u01b0\u1eddi m\u1ea5t t\u00edch, m\u1ecdi chi ti\u1ebft \u0111\u1ec1u ph\u1ea3i \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c ghi xu\u1ed1ng: nh\u1eefng s\u1ee3i t\u00f3c r\u1ee5ng, vi\u1ec1n m\u00f3ng tay \u0111\u00e3 c\u1eaft, m\u00f9i \u0111\u1ee9a b\u00e9 ph\u1ea3ng ph\u1ea5t tr\u00ean m\u00e1, nh\u1eefng t\u1ea5c cao c\u1ee7a c\u00e2y du, gi\u1ecdng \u0111\u1ee9a b\u00e9 ch\u01b0a bao gi\u1edd thu l\u1ea1i, \u00e1nh m\u1eaft, c\u00e1i nh\u00ecn xa l\u1ea1 t\u1eeb b\u00ean trong.<\/p>\n

Ng\u00e0y n\u00f3 l\u00ean 13, n\u00f3 \u0111\u1ebfn b\u00ean t\u00f4i, nh\u1eafn nh\u1ee7:<\/p>\n

M\u1eb9 \u01a1i, con cho m\u1eb9 nh\u1eefng s\u1ee3i t\u00f3c c\u1ee7a con. M\u1eb9 ph\u1ea3i sao l\u01b0u con. \u0110\u1ec3 m\u1eb9 kh\u00f4ng ph\u1ea3i nh\u1edb con n\u1eefa. M\u1eb9 s\u1ebd kh\u00f4ng c\u00f2n s\u1ee3 l\u00e0 con s\u1ebd b\u1ecb m\u1ea5t t\u00edch.<\/p>\n

T\u00f3c n\u00f3 d\u1ea7y, c\u1ee9ng, nh\u01b0 r\u1ec5.<\/p>\n

\u0110\u00e2y l\u00e0 tang ch\u1ee9ng s\u1ef1 hi\u1ec7n h\u1eefu c\u1ee7a n\u00f3. Tang ch\u1ee9ng con trai t\u00f4i.<\/p>\n

Nh\u1eefng c\u00e1i r\u0103ng s\u1eefa c\u1ee7a n\u00f3.<\/p>\n

\"teeth\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Cu\u1ed1ng r\u1ed1n n\u00f3.<\/p>\n

B\u1ea1n nh\u00ecn th\u1ea5y kh\u00f4ng? B\u1ea1n nh\u00ecn th\u1ea5y n\u00f3, th\u1ea5y t\u00f4i, th\u1ea5y ch\u00fang t\u00f4i trong \u0111\u00f3?<\/p>\n

\"shadow-foto\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nh\u1eefng b\u1ed9 qu\u1ea7n \u00e1o Halloween l\u00e0 manh m\u1ed1i cho cu\u1ed9c \u0111i\u1ec1u tra. T\u1eeb bao nhi\u00eau n\u0103m t\u00f4i \u0111\u00e3 th\u1ea5y n\u00f3 thay \u0111\u1ed5i, thay th\u00e1i \u0111\u1ed9, thay ki\u1ec3u c\u00e1ch, thay b\u1ea3n s\u1eafc. T\u00f4i t\u1eebng th\u1ea5y k\u1ebb l\u1ea1 x\u00e2m nh\u1eadp v\u00e0o ng\u01b0\u1eddi n\u00f3. T\u00f4i t\u1eebng th\u1ea5y nhi\u1ec1u k\u1ebb l\u1ea1 b\u0103ng qua ng\u01b0\u1eddi n\u00f3.<\/p>\n

\"Picture-of-Cookie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nh\u01b0ng ch\u00fang ta v\u1eabn c\u1ee9 gi\u1ea3 v\u1edd l\u00e0 kh\u00f4ng c\u00f3 g\u00ec \u0111\u00e3 x\u1ea3y ra. R\u1eb1ng k\u1ebb m\u1ea5t t\u00edch v\u1eabn c\u00f2n \u0111\u00e2y, \u0111\u00e2u \u0111\u00f3, \u1edf nh\u00e0, trong gia \u0111\u00ecnh, trong t\u1ea5t c\u1ea3 ch\u00fang ta.<\/p>\n

C\u1ee9 gi\u1ea3 v\u1edd, \u0111\u1ec3 l\u00e0m d\u1ecbu n\u1ed7i \u0111au.<\/p>\n

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\u2026 happen, in the Autumn \u2026<\/span><\/h1>\n

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 original English script by \u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1<\/em><\/p>\n

Autumn.<\/p>\n

The season always reminds me of the incident.<\/p>\n

The date, the time, the person missing at night. The kidnap.<\/p>\n

The story of a mother and her fear.<\/p>\n

Motherhood shapes me in the most unexpected way. Motherhood turns the world into a dangerous trap, a web of crimes and conspiracies, a forest whose trees are rooted from the mother earth\u2019s soil.<\/p>\n

My son is like a tree, I like to think of him as a young green elm.<\/p>\n

When the tree was cut down, when someone was kidnapped, what do we suppose to do. How can we make a report?<\/p>\n

These are the traces of his image and his essence<\/p>\n

The elm is his essence.<\/p>\n

I will show you his image: the mask he made in art class.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll show you a secret: a collection of pigs for a person born in the year of the boar. We collect them together. They are collected form Vietnam, Taiwan, Chile, Mexico, USA, Maya, Europe, Africa, everywhere\u2026 We both love the ones made of wood the most. The look and the feel of wood remind us of the tree, the soil, the root.<\/p>\n

That explains why we used to have the same dream:<\/p>\n

Outside the door stands a sapling elm, pale green, swaying in the early summer breeze. Strangely how the elm stands, a connecting point between the glass-enclosed room and the long, deep path pulling endlessly from his gaze. The elm is the same age as the boy but nobody knows this.<\/em><\/p>\n

The boy sees the horde parading into his room, convening about his bed, staggering. They slip inside him through every available orifice: his mouth, nose, ears, eyes, anus, pores. Four-legged beasts are travelling inside his body. They claw at walls, crevices. Headless beasts. Severed heads dripped with gloppy mush; their bloody tissues fanned out like roots.<\/em><\/p>\n

The beasts run across the plains. They run across the elm forest. They crush trees and plants that block their way. Fallen elms lay strewn in their paths, oozing green sap over the earth. The crazed beasts march on. When they leave the elms are flattened on the forest floor like white strips of fabric. A white strip slowly takes flight, covering the boy\u2019s face, holding in his breath, pushing his breath inside his body, containing his breath.<\/em><\/p>\n

The entire elm forest becomes a face mask on the boy\u2019s face. He dreams oxygen-deprived dreams.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This swine gang is his strength, his physicality, his destiny.<\/p>\n

The elm is his spirit. The spirit is crushed, by destiny.<\/p>\n

When thinking of kidnap, we think of the kids taken away by strangers, with violence. No one realizes that it can be a process, little by little, like breathing away the air, like draining out the blood, like erasing the details from our memory, like the trees shedding leaves in the autumn.<\/p>\n

To report the missing, may be every detail counts: hairs falling off, finger nails being cut, the baby smell on the cheeks, the growing inches of the elm, the kid\u2019s voice never recorded, the eye expression, the stranger\u2019s look from within.<\/p>\n

The day he turned thirteen, he came to me and said:<\/p>\n

\u201cMommy, I\u2019m giving you my hair. You have to clone me. Then you don\u2019t have to miss me anymore. You\u2019re not scared that I\u2019ll be lost anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

His hair is thick, strong, like a root.<\/p>\n

These are the proof of his existence. The evidence of my son.<\/p>\n

His baby teeth.<\/p>\n

His umbilical cord.<\/p>\n

You see it? You see him, you see me, you see us in it?<\/p>\n

The Halloween costumes are the clues for the search. For years I\u2019ve been seeing him changing roles, changing attitude, changing styles, changing identity. I\u2019ve seen a stranger invading his body. I\u2019ve seen so many strangers passing through him.<\/p>\n

But we can still pretend, that nothing has happened. That the missing one was still there, somewhere, at home, in the family, among all of us.<\/p>\n

Just pretend, in order to ease the pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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