The histories of the pirates recount that there were two women, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who dressed up as men, and, as such, sailed the seas in the company of other buccaneers, taking towns and vessels, hoisting the standard of the skull and crossbones. It was the year of 1720 and different histories have the one and the other living and fighting the eventful navigation of those times. In a pirate ship, commanded by Captain John Rackam, they met each other. They recount that, the one thinking the other was a man, love blossomed and, upon learning the truth, everything returned to normal, and each went their own way.
It was not like that. This, which I am writing you, is the true history of Mary Read and Anne Bonny. I was confided the other history, the one that will not appear in books, because they still persist in spinning only the normality and good sense they all have, and the normality of the "other" goes no further than disapproving silence, condemnation or neglect. This is part of the history that walks the underground bridges that the "others" extend, in order to be, and to be known...
