Mising Scene (Spoilers!)

I rented the American (non-sexual) DVD and looked at one of the two main "Deleted" scenes. The removal of the pot-party-Pedro-coughing scene causes the movie to make no real sense to an American audience. The reason being: the child's age could not be resolved. Is he twelve or fifteen at the end of the movie?

All prior scenes shows the child to be about nine years old. His scenen with his grandmother at the schoolhouse showed him to be nine, and learning traumatic information about Pedro (of course the kid already knew). Immediately following this scene, there is a hospital scene, and then there is a fade that shows, "three years later". This would logically make the kid twelve when he wrote the letter to Pedro (who reads it in the hospital). Then another fade comes along that says "three years later" and then the cemetery scene. The two three-year fades would correctly make the kid fifteen, and the actor who played the now-grown kid would be about fifteen. Thus correctly aging the characters. When the Deleted scene is cut, the final scene suggests that the kid only aged three years, and that the whole story takes place only over a three years interval. The deleted scene needs to be put back in for continuity and accuracy.