Their complicity did not go unnoticed around them. What no one really saw was that this bond had been woven slowly, patiently, through thousands of small moments of everyday life. Not a question of heredity. A question of presence, quite simply.
His last hours and a long-kept secret confession
Twenty years later, life has imposed a formidable ordeal on them. Dad fell seriously ill. The vigorous and lively man she had always known began to gradually decline. Hospital stays followed one another, until the day the doctors announced that his condition was getting worse irreparably.
She hardly took her eyes off him.
