Joana and her siblings lost their mother twenty years ago. I shared their emotional annihilation as I could envisage nothing worse in life. A few months later she and I went for a drive in here mum’s old Merc. I drove. We spoke… about this and that. 

“Despite it all, I love everything about my life” she told me.

I was aghast…. for twenty years,

Until today;

I caught myself repeating those words.

Thank you.