ESTANISLAO CONTRERAS

What is the truth, Kali. Did you commit adultery? Are you with the town clown or have you as is your wont moved on to someone new?

Over the time that we have been apart, how many secrets have you hidden from me? How many secrets are you hiding from me now?

I remember you describing yourself the five years between marriages as "out of control." You rendered in excruciating detail your lies to individuals and your exploitation of situations in order to experience single life to the fullest.

To what degree have you played me for the fool? A leopard doesn't change its spots. You were, are and always will be, to put it kindly, a certain type of woman. Never in my wildest imagination could I have conceived that behind such a beautiful facade could exist such ugliness.

God gave us the most perfect gift in Michelle, but you didn't and don't care. You have destroyed a little girl. When you are in the middle of someone in the middle of you, picture Michelle looking at you and asking, "What are you doing, Mami? Where's my Daddy?"

You have no idea the tragic consequences your decision to destroy our family will have for the three of us, particularly for Michelle. I can't believe that you have the audacity to call yourself a mother when you have chosen to live the secret life of a lounge lizard.

You may think you have triumphed by dumping me, but in the not too distant future you will no longer have your beauty. You will be old, ill and miserable.

I must accept that I married an empty vessel who bewitched me, as you have bewitched many others in the past and still do as you forge--or is it fuck?--your way into the future. But one day the leaves will fall from the tree and you will stand nude with your limp tits hanging to your navel over your stretch-marked belly. You will be haunted by a past that was marked by one mistake after another.

You could save our family, but I'm sure the temporary excitement of your amorous adventures appeals to the woman who told me on repeated occasions, "Once I have sex with a man, he bores me."

God have mercy on our souls and may He take pity on our little girl.