I love the little boy you are now and the man you will become.
~unknown~
Bruno
Luca seemed surprisingly happy to be with me even though he'd left Lia behind. He was chatty; his infectious laughter always drew a smile from me without effort, his little feet kept tugging the car seat.
I remembered how Ele would blink back tears every time he burst out laughing or happily playing with the other children. It took more than a couple of weeks for her to watch him laughing or smiling without shedding tears. Sometimes I caught her yawning to cover-up tears or when she lowered her head to hide them. Looking at him now happily telling me a story of Lia's cats running around the garden, his toothless grin lighting up his face, I finally grasped the reason why Ele had been afraid to tell me a
