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<br><div class="text-justify">***Are you sure you want to do this?*** I listen as I sleepily open the coffee bag to grind some beans and prepare the first coffee of the day.
<br><div class="text-justify">It had been a long night, as I was finishing up a project that was due first thing the next day.
<br><div class="text-justify">I had only paused for a couple of hours, and was just waking up to put the finishing touches on it and send it off to the office. Colleagues would take care of the formal delivery.
<br><div class="text-justify">***Can we negotiate?*** I listened again. I thought my mind was creating that little voice from too little rest.
<br><div class="text-justify">I put aside what I'm doing and go to the bathroom to wash my face, to see if I wake up completely, but in the distance I hear: I have a family! You can't do this to me!
<br><div class="text-justify">That's when I finish reacting. Something paranormal is going on at home! I quickly go out, looking from side to side, looking for the source of that voice that is shouting at me. I live alone, which makes it all the more frightening.
<br><div class="text-justify">It was a female voice, but it wasn't me. It wasn't coming from my head either, so who was it? My neighbors were away, so it couldn't be them either.
<br><div class="text-justify">I stand in the middle of the living room, waiting for a new sentence, or something to tell me I'm not imagining all this, but nothing happens. 
<br><div class="text-justify">I turn on the computer again, to finish the work and go to the kitchen, to continue with the coffee.

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<br><div class="text-justify">I put the kettle on the stove, to heat the water while I go back to the coffee bag.
<br><div class="text-justify">***Have mercy, we can really negotiate***. I hear again. Now yes, paranoia ran through my whole body and gave me goose bumps.
<br><div class="text-justify">Negotiate what? I said out loud. And then I thought, do you think you're going to get an answer?
<br><div class="text-justify">I don't want to die, at least not like this, I heard as I took a portion of coffee beans out of the bag.
<br><div class="text-justify">To my surprise, one of them had big red lips and huge eyes full of tears. He was hugging two small beans, one on each side.
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<br><div class="text-justify">My reaction was to drop a handful into the grinding machine, as I listened. They are my children, their father was separated from us, in another bag. I am all they have left!
<br><div class="text-justify">And what do you want me to do? I asked somewhat intrigued.
<br><div class="text-justify">***Let us live!"*** rebuked this new... ¿friend?
<br><div class="text-justify">While I was upset about everything that was happening, I received a call, it was the boss asking about the project. So I forgot about the coffee, turned off the kettle and went to work on the computer, still thinking about the whole strange situation before.
<br><div class="text-justify">When the work was finished and sent, I went back to the kitchen, only that there were no more voices, neither was that coffee bean with the big eyes, nor her children... 
<br><div class="text-justify">I was left with the intrigue of knowing if it was real or a product of my imagination, but since then, I started to buy the coffee already ground. I'm not in the mood for surprises of that kind... 

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