"NARRATIVA DE MARGARET SCULLY"
EM PORTUGU�S

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Uma vez quando ela era crian�a...
uma criancinha... Dana estava na floresta.
Era Outono.
Ela sempre foi uma peralta, diferente da irm� Melissa.
Para o anivers�rio dela os irm�os lhe deram
um rifle de chumbinhos e lhe mostravam como usar.
O pai disse pra eles que s� atirassem em latas...
Mas no meio do mato, Bill Junior h�via encontrado uma cobra.
E os meninos come�aram atirar.
N�o querendo perder para os irm�os, Dana tamb�m atirou na cobra.
Que se debatia em desespero lutando por uma vida.
E enquanto os meninos continuavam a atirar,
a cobra come�ou a sangrar.
Quando ela viu o que h�via feito, come�ou a chorar sentindo-se culpada.
Atrav�s das l�grimas, ela estava dizendo que alguma coisa faltava na cobra,
que ela h�via tirado uma coisa que n�o devia ter tirado.
E embora ter um medo mortal de cobras,
Dana pegou o r�ptil como se a compaix�o fosse mante-la viva.
A cobra com o sangue escorrendo nas m�os dela morreu, n�o havia como ressuscit�-la.

ONE BREATH

"NARRATIVA DE MARGARET SCULLY"
EM INGL�S

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Once, when she was a girl...
a very little girl... Dana was in the woods.
It was autumn.
She had always been a tomboy, unlike her sister Melissa.
For her birthday, Dana�s brothers had given her a
B.B. gun and were showing her how to use it.
Their father had told them only to shoot cans...
But in a patch of grass, Bill Jr. found a garter snake.
And they began shooting.
Wanting to fit in with her brothers, Dana also shot at the snake.
It squirmed wildly, desperately fighting for life but as the boys
continued to shoot the snake began to bleed.
When she realized what she had done...
Dana began to cry with irrevocable guilt. Through her tears, she was saying that...
something was missing from the snake.
She had taken something that was not hers to take.
And although deathly afraid of snakes, Dana held the animal
as if sheer human will could keep it alive.
The snake, its blood on her hands, died. There was nothing she
could do to bring it back.