The story began in Coyoacán, Mexico. Matilde, a young girl, came back from school and one day, nervously or knowingly, she did not know, she dropped the notebooks and a boy who always looked at her, ran to pick them up. They talked, they became engaged, the time passed and then the marriage was agreed upon. Then the unimaginable happened.
On the eve of the wedding, he visited her and handed her a wooden box, painted blue. When she wanted to open it, he told her that there was a letter inside, so please read it later. Without saying more, the future husband pulled out a gun and blew his head off. Since then Matilde was called the Widow Bride. And jealously guarded the box and the secret of that letter.
Sunk in the solitude and the rumors, Matilde with 26 years, was condemned to the single. Then a photographer of German origin appeared, widower, who proposed to him marriage. From that double widowhood was born a girl that the world knows as Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter.
And his life was one blow after another. Poliomyelitis at 6 years. Result, disability of the left leg. Out of sheer rage, that girl devoted herself to two impossible sports: soccer and boxing. But some blows were still missing. At 18, a tram crushed the bus he was traveling on. Result: spine fractured in three parts; clavicle and ribs torn; three breaks in the pelvis, and eleven in the right leg.
To complete, a handrail pierced her from the hip to exit through the vagina. "That's how I lost my virginity," said Frida. Throughout 32 surgeries, Frida discovered pain and painting. And then he met the great of Mexican painting: Diego Rivera. And they got married in what people called the marriage of the elephant and the dove, to graph the difference in size between the uneven couple. And with Diego she became a better painter and more a communist.
Later, perhaps out of love, or in spite of the same love, both launched themselves into the world of scandalous infidelities. Diego, with the same sister of Frida. And Frida, with many men and women at the same time.
But let's go back to the blue wooden box, with the mysterious letter. When she turned fifteen, Frida received that gift from her mother, on the condition of keeping the secret. Frida read the letter only once in her life, and was not able to read it again. He kept the letter in the blue box and many years later, a mason, who repaired his house, stole the box with the letter.
Do not ask me how the blue box arrived to Ecuador, and to my hands. I have the letter and I was only able to read it once. In any case, it says: "Only one person in the world ...". I can not tell. The newspaper does not allow me more space.
Anyway. In chess they say that the one who keeps the secret of his best move also wins: Mikenas Vs Aronin. Moscow, 1957. Play the black.
This story was originally written by my friend Ramiro Díez in Diario EL TELÉGRAFO under the following address: https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/columnistas/1/el-secreto-mejor-guardado If you are going to use it, please quote our source and place a link to the original note. www.eltelegrafo.com.ec
