KABANATA 35:
MIGUELITO'S POINT OF VIEW:
WHEN I WAS FIVE, I WAS diagnosed by a rare disease called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain or CPI. It was a rare condition in which a person could not feel any physical pain. My parents discovered about it when my father scold me because I did something horrible–I killed a cat. He beat me up but I don't even cry even though my legs are bleeding because he hit me with his belt and my mom was crying to stop dad from hitting me.
My heart was crying in pain but why can't I cry?
He was hitting me to death but I can't even shed a tear.
When I was diagnosed of such a disease, my father distanced himself to me. I do not know the reason why but maybe because he thinks that I am a monster. Not long after, my mother started to fell out of love on him, then
