On July 9, 1977, on that day, two strange things happened in Cariaco, which is a town in the State of Sucre, located in the northeastern region of Venezuela, bathed by an immense sea that runs along its coasts. Yusmary and her husband Pedro live in that town, where they built their mud house with a coconut palm roof in a hamlet inhabited by few people. All the constructions of these houses are of this style. The men of this neighborhood are dedicated to fishing, Pedro also carries out this activity, Yusmary takes care of the housework. She is pregnant and is only a few days away from giving birth. They are very much in love.
The first strange thing that happened that day: it was At 2:30 at naight., Pedro went out with other fishermen, boarded their boats with their fishing gear and went back to their daily work. A short time later, when they were at sea, they felt a strange shudder in their boats. All of them were astonished, with their eyes wide open they crossed their gazes in amazement, more frightened than excited. Pedro shouted:
Let us turn back! Peter said again:
Let us return to our homes! His face looked worried, and he added:
"This I am feeling is not normal, in the years I have been fishing for the first time I perceive this shuddering in my boat".
They all listened to their fellow worker and took the road home. When they were 2 km from the shore of the beach, they observed that the sea retreated and the boats they were coming from were anchored on land. They all jumped out of their boats and began to run at high speed, a few seconds after reaching the shore they saw how the sea returned with a fury to its channel, the waves were similar to sheets of steel, translucent by the moonlight we could appreciate their flashes.
Yusmary, who was at home at 2:30 at night, felt her bed move strongly. In addition, she felt something strange and saw a shadow and from it came a voice as if from beyond the grave that said to her:
"Your husband is in danger!
She got up frightened, looked under the bed, became captious. Then she looked out of the window of her house and saw many people in the street, she got dressed and when she was about to go out she felt a very strong contraction with the desire to give birth. The fishermen came to her village, saw many people in the street, approached her and asked: "What's going on? They all answered through the battery-powered radio because since that strange event happened, the power went out and still hasn't come on yet, we heard that there was an earthquake with the characteristics of a tidal wave. said Pedro:
No wonder that's what we felt and saw offshore!
Very excited he asks
"And Yusmary, I don't see her in the crowd?" Several answer:
"We haven't seen it."
Pedro ran desperately to his house when he entered he found his wife already giving birth, he washed his hands with alcohol, helped her to give birth, held the child, placed it on the bed, with its umbilical cord and ran to call the midwife who lives six houses away from his house, so that she would come to attend her after assisting her and bathing the child She called him.
Peter come and carry your child!
He carried him and said:
His name shall be July, for on this day, 09/07/1977, two strange things happened to me and this child I hold in my hands is the product of one of them.
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