Mandatory Military Service

When I met Eduardo in college I knew that he liked to go to parties and go out with his friends on weekends, but as he was very handsome and was a gentleman we started dating shortly after meeting.

On those times in my country young people over 18 years were forced to do military service, but as they did not show up to register at military bases, officers made raids on public transport buses to force them to do their military duty.

On the day of our first wedding anniversary, I put my makeup on and my best clothes, I waited for my husband, the hours passed by... He did not arrive. The next day in the afternoon he told me "they recruited me and thanks to an official friend who happened to know them, they letted me go", he exuded a liquor smell and seemed not to have slept, but he never accepted that he was lying. After 22 years of marriage he still holds his lie while smiling, but he no longer attends parties without me.