³⁹ | 𝙇𝙤𝙨 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨 🎼

(𝘜𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘰)

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘢, 𝘚𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘭

You had to join the military to survive; it was that or die in the misery of loneliness.

You had been friends with Claudio, Jorge, and Miguel in high school, and you wanted to support them in their band.

But, being in a dictatorship, you knew it would be complicated.

You were lucky they hadn't taken you before, and at the same time you would have liked them to take you.

Your family had been murdered, and some were imprisoned and tortured, taken away by the military in front of you, while the others who were killed were gunned down in '73

You had been living alone and just surviving for a long time, barely able to afford the things you needed to live.

You became a soldier even though it pained you to see families torn apart, innocent people killed, and hundreds disappeared. You were also against the dictatorship, but you couldn't say so.

You had to distance yourself from the three friends, but they knew you were in the military and they didn't like it very much.

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