Upon waking up in the hospital, María Guadalupe and her five children were already there.
They only left him the hospital bill marked as “PAID IN FULL” and a small envelope.
Inside the envelope there were 500 pesos.
The exact amount he stole from María Guadalupe in 1995 before abdicating them.
Ramó left the hospital with life in his body, but dead in his soul. He saw on television and in the newspapers the success of his children, but he could only watch from afar.
He would forever carry the remorse that the five “charges” he discarded in the past were ones that could have sustained him in his old age.