Not the End

Odin Dupeyron

Chapters (25)

Cover Page

Title Page

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Gracias Brennando

Copyright

Cover Concept: Edgar Ramírez
Cover Design: Alejandro Godin
Editorial Design: Laura María Rodríguez

ISBN ISBN 978-607-9069-12-4

eISBN: 9786079069155

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Dedication

To
Sara, Angelita y Marivi.

To
Odette y Natasha.

To
Guille, Mónica, Rosalba, Sara Citlali,
Carolina, Maru y doña Bety.

To
Lonchis y Martha.

To
Verónica, Erika M., Erika R., Tamra, Lizzete, Andrea, Angélica, Fabiola, Adela, Jana, Lilia, Luly, Marcia, Jessica, Carmen, Noemí, Dalilah, Perla, Luzma, Ursula, Adriana, Karmen, las Dacias, Jakie, Rosi F., Chelín, Tania, Mary Paz, Rocío, Iris, Pía, Beatriz, Thaily, Cynthia, Mariana, la Sheraton y Coty.

To
Marisol y Rosy.
Rosa Martha y Coca.

To
Miss Lupita, Susana, Grace, Margarita, doña Marcia, Ana María, Sofi, Fany, Christi, Lilí, Titis, Rosy y Martha R.

And to all the other princesses I’ve found in the course of my life. And also, for those who I haven’t met yet, but not for that they stop being, at heart, authentic princesses.

Thank you

To Marisol and César

My dearest Lambreton

Prologue

Prologue

It is with unquestionable talent that the author of this fascinating book describes the structure of what is ostensibly a fairy tale. Through a cluster of beautiful introspective and insightful metaphors, he also manages to guide us along the path of self-knowledge, as the cornerstone of emotional maturity and, ultimately, existential wisdom.

This whole process is depicted in realistic terms, appealing to fantasy only to give a sort of allegorical dressing that allows us to understand the inner drama of those who dare to look inside being characters of a script, written by historical circumstances, that derive from emotional learning in childhood, which is full of inertia and prejudices. These undermine one´s judgment, and don´t allow us to question why we think as we do.

In a certain way, the story relates the painful and, at the same time, wonderful transition from prejudice to independent judgment, and also from alienation to sensibleness and thus, the assumption of the command of one´s existence.

Cognos ipsi (know yourself) is the fundamental key.

If we try to understand our personal family background, we can realize how some features of our personality are ruled by what we have learned in a passive mode, and how this criterion is no longer useful once we grow up.