María didn’t think twice.
When her father José lunged at Víctor, the 71-year-old man she had been dating for some time, she put her hands wherever she could. She didn’t manage to stop the knife. She only managed to lose three fingers.
The family never accepted that relationship. They said they looked like grandfather and granddaughter, that a 47-year age difference was too much to look at them together without discomfort. That Saturday night, during a family gathering in Coahuila, Mexico, José’s words toward Víctor escalated until they were no longer just words.
The paramedics arrived around 2 in the morning this Sunday, September 6, near the Luis Echeverría Álvarez ring road. They transported Víctor with abdominal wounds, but he died on the way. María was left with her hands bandaged and without her boyfriend, punished for loving the person she chose to love.
