CHAPTER 13
Words Before leaving I show my mother on the little display of my Reflex the shots I’ve just taken. She looks at them slowly and she asks me to take a picture of her too with the rose bushes in the little tree-lined street as background. While she asks me that, she’s serious and I see a veil of sadness in her eyes but I don’t have the courage to ask her anything to avoid ruining that magic moment in that place that has always made me safe. Thus, we go towards that spot and I start to take some pictures in total silence. I always find her beautiful, she pops on camera even with some wrinkle more. After the first shots, she moves away from the rose bushes and takes me arm in arm without saying a word. We’re late.
She’s weirdly silent while
