I tried in every possible way to speak to Manuela. But she didn’t answer me. And when I went to her house looking for her, she had simply vanished.

I could easily have refused to show up on that damn Channel 8 program—the same place where she had once been exposed and humiliated. But doing that would have meant humiliating her this time. And that had never been my intention.

Manuela hadn’t forgiven me. And I accepted that. After all, I hadn’t been able to forgive my mother either. I ...