“I do not know if and how much it may console you; but I can reassure you about one thing: that he went away without suffering, in his sleep, serenely.” “I do not know if and how much it may console you; but I can reassure you about one thing: that he went away without suffering, in his sleep, serenely.” ------------------------- It happened for no apparent reason, on an ordinary night like thousands other nights in my life, like one of those strange jokes that the dark and mysterious meanders of our brain sometimes get up to; one of those fantasies that, regardless of our will, come to life who knows how in the most remote corners of our mind. Many years had passed since all the important events of her life, of our life. Yet, who knows why, I dreamed of Maria that night for the first

