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Day 21 Danced, child. No one church visit. Phone i me call  help. There. Computer file download ACTA. Future censorship. Help mouse. You uncovered. Disc run ran me hide escaped. Night child danced. Code open source YOUTUBE. Watch China. Truth kidnapped. Go, see future all. Mouth, voice silenced. Head, imagination creativity killed. Old, very old no understood. Me help, me transform but you open eyes. Baby revolution but they no want. Please help. Tear your eyes. Moved, opened window. Open source code help all in globe. Change, transform only one and, only one button. Girl danced you helped. Everyone got their voice again and you helped to transform the world where Zoe is dancing now. She listens to your old vinyl discs and remembers you, she plays the tapes and she sighs, she plays the CDs and she laughs, she reads your SD cards and USB sticks and she amazes. She visits you but she cries. You helped to transform this world.

Day 20 Pérez was a very hard-working man. He used to wake up early every day, take the only bus in town and travel two hours to go to work. Unfortunately, because of some strange circumstances, he became a homeless in town. Pérez lost his prestige as a hard-working man and gained reputation for being a thief. Everybody in town began to judge him and anytime something disappeared, he was to blame. His clothes were worn out and he never wore shoes again. He always carried a white sack on his back and mothers used to scare their kids by telling them that if they misbehaved the man with the sack would take them away. That's what your mother used to tell you and you were always scared as a kid. When you grew older and were in high school you named that man differently. He was not Pérez anymore but Peye. He was always in trouble: sometimes with no food to eat and sometimes in jail but he was always freed because nobody presented charges. One day, however, he stole things from a judge an...

Day 19 That was a curious day. Everybody was sitting around a fire. They had already set the rules before you arrived. All the participants had to tell something: stories, jokes, anecdotes, puzzles, whatever you thought was worth telling. You were frightened because it was the first time you were camping to open air, alone, far away from home, and with no mobile. The first participation was a silly anecdote; then, the second was a tongue twister that you could not tell. Everybody had told their story but you. You were frozen. Nobody knew what was going on with you until someone pushed you softly. It was your turn. You began to tell that old story your grandpa told you about the man who got lost in the corn fields. As you told the story, everybody was holding somebody else's hand. The man was alone walking under the moonlight but he started to hear distant screaming as the air was whistling. The man walked faster and faster and as he moved the screaming was closer and closer. The...

Day 18 Miguel was one of the homeless in town. He had dark skin and had a shaved head. Everybody used to say that he was crazy. But you and your family believed the opposite because he used to help you with some home chores. He used to take you to school and in the afternoon he helped your father in his shop. When he was not in your house or with your father, he would go to the countryside just to have a walk. He always carried a machete with him but he used it only when he was in the fields. When it was evening, he disappeared and returned the following day. You witnessed this routine for many years until you were an adolescent. One day you left town and moved to another city. In one of your visits, your mother was talking to you and you asked for Miguel. Your mom said he had died but nobody knew about it. Somebody announced that the police had found him in the countryside under a tree. He had no injuries or any other sign of being killed by someone else. Your mom said with a break...

Day 17 One afternoon you saw Zoe crying because she had fallen off her bike. Then you sat by her side and started to tell her your old story about learning how to ride a bike. She was sobbing but she changed humor after telling her about how Spots had bitten you and how you had lost a piece of your favorite jeans. She got up, took her bike and asked you to support her so that she would not fall off again. You said yes but you warned her that you could not run very fast because of your walking stick. She said it was okay but once she balanced her weight in the bike she kept pedaling until you could no longer support her and set her free. You were tired and had breathing difficulties but Zoe was so thrilled that she forgot you were behind her. When she realized that nobody answered while she was talking she turned around and saw you many meters behind. She became worried because she knew about your breathing problems so she took her courage in both hands and pedaled to go back and...

Day 16 The first time you had a bike, you wanted to ride it right away but it took you more than four years to learn how to ride it. You were only one year old but your father wanted you to have this brand new bike. Once you learned, you began to ride around the neighborhood, especially at night. Remember that night when you took your bike and visited Anna's house? That night you had imposed a new record to the time it took you to move from your house to Anna's. You decided to tell Anna about it but you did not know that 'Spots' --Anna's dog-- was free that night and was taking care of the house like a ferocious beast. You left your bike against the fence, opened the gate and walked filled up with emotion; suddenly, Spots began to bark and then to move towards you and then run towards you and you tried to be calmed because your great fiends had told you that staying calmed was the best in case of a dog attack but they did not know Spots. When it was closer to yo...

Day 15 A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land as Wikipedia defines it, but according to some local experts who have been in floods, they define it as a disaster that causes great losses. When Sarah told you about her story, you were astonished. In September last year, the news focused in a small village that attracted the attention of many people and organizations all around the country. You were the last to know about it. The day you checked the news in the net, it was too late. Your hometown was completely flooded. The pictures showed a devastated place. People were fighting for food and clothes. You did not know anything about your family. You tried to make a call but there were no telephone or cell phone lines available in the area. You began to become panicked. The net was the only way of being connected because a blog was opened and someone from a nearby town visited the devastated zone and provided information about the situation and about some people he...