It took me time to realize how much she needed to be surrounded by her people, in that place that caused her so much fulfillment; such was her insistence that I even requested a change of destination, one as close as possible to that land.
Thus, on several occasions I had requested the transfer, but they always told me "It's not the time", and the years passed and passed.
My retirement was the turning point. I had not wanted to say anything about it, and our children had already made their lives, none of them had followed my steps within the army, and each one had moved to a different place.
We had been alone for a few years, well, with coworkers, on a military base, with their families, but alone in the sense that we did not share faith with others.
My wife had stopped the discussions
