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so he closed himself again in his room. After that he heard how his mother was approaching to the
room. There his mum insulted and shouted at him like he was her prisoner.
That's how it was for many weeks, but the parents behavior was getting worse little by little. They
started slapping and hurting Alex. He was terrified, but the worse wouldn’t come yet.
They arrived to the point where they slapped him in front of the other kids. That made him feel
terrified, he didn’t want to go to school anymore, so the parents slapped him again.
Because all this, he locked himself in for 3 days. Finally, his uncles came to visit the family. When
Alex opened the door and walked to his uncle. He was different he didn’t have that typical smile the he
had sometimes ago, so they asked Alex what had happened.
They decided to call the police, to fix this big problem. They wanted to help Alex and make him
happy. The uncles decided to stay with the boy, to give him that life that had been away from him
because of the problems with his parents gave him. He deserved a different life, they save him that
love that he lost during that time.
After all that, Alex lived a beautiful life and everything returned to normal.
Authors: Taysa Oliveira, Jordi Sanchis, Iker Gómez, Patricia Corraliza
(Fedac-Manresa, Manresa, Spain)
Illustrations: Helen Shushiashvili (School "Opiza", Tbilisi, Georgia)