Aideé Zamorano

A mosquito is ahead of us

How does a fly get a head start on us?

By Aideé Zamorano

It must be 1998 because I'm in third grade and the school principal comes in to give us the unfortunate news.

"Prof. Pablo passed away due to dengue fever."

He had been in the hospital for a couple of weeks. During a school vacation he had taken the opportunity to visit his native Oaxaca. I remember it very vividly, at that time I was very good at math and everything had to do with him, it was the second year he was teaching us and he had even convinced me to enter a competition.

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