The story comes from The Book “A Memoir in Correspondence”, by Emma Reyes. Hailed in Colombia as the best book published in 2012, it immerses the reader into a stunning narrative of a perplexing childhood which can only be told in first person. This string of letters cannot be confined to a memoir, testimony or even a novel. Instead, they represent a fine thread that sews a story, fabling memories, speaking imagination’s truth, and evoking a socio-political context now quite distant and unrecognizable from the Colombia most people are familiar with. This particular story, told through the artist's eyes, goes back to the day when she, with the help of her friend "el Piojo" and other street children, created General Rebollo—a clay figurine— with their own hands.