I was at a family gathering, a big party with tables attended by waiters. At my table were my friends from Cancún: Ricardo, Linda, George, Moni; and my ex H. I looked at the guests who were at the dance floor, and saw my uncle Tito much younger than he is now, perhaps at age 50, with long hair and unbridled energy, dancing.

Then I saw uncle Emilio, at around the same age, with long hair and a long beard, fat and tired. He was drunk and disheveled, and stood in the middle of the dance floor to announce something inapropriate while slurring his words. Then he brought out a comb out of his pocket and he combed his beard, which made him look much wiser, and I thought that was a strange bias: if he had said his announcement with a combed beard it wouldn’t have sound inapropriate, and furthermore, I didn’t know if my bias was towards wise looking people or against disheveled looking people.

I looked towards H. and I saw that she was bored. Conversation was not flowing at the table and I didn’t know what to say. She pulled up her skirt, revealing that she wasn’t wearing underware, exposing her pubic hair to the view of everyone. “Hey, pull down your skirt”, I told her, and instead she let herself slide down the chair, exposing herself even more.

I left her side for a walk around the venue, and I saw that this was the Museo Amparo in Puebla, which held the reception for us. I went up the the library and saw many people busy studying, and everything was full of life. I wondered how this place could be open and bustling during lockdown, but I thought that I ought to bring my computer and work from this place.

I tried to get back to the party, but the building was maze-like, and I encountered many interesting things that distracted me from the task of find the hall with the party. There were three tables with families having dinner, there was a playground area were kids hid in large earthware jars (I hid in one myself), but I always came back to the task of going back to my friends, but I never found the hall with my family and friends.