Immediately after graduating, I had a car accident that sent me in a coma for 21 days. When I woke of the coma I was paralysed. I could not talk. I had double vision. My eyes were no longer strait. I was un-balanced. I had lost many abilities and a world of possibilities; I had turned into a very different person.

It was never easy for me to pay a strong attention to lots of people at the same time. A friendship, to earn that name, needs total commitment of both parts. By that time, I had a lot of people I was friendly with, but few real friends.

Two of them were indeed special. Dear, dear friends.

Each one reacted differently to what happened to me.

One of them abandoned everything in order to follow my movements. He was with me all the way through those painful months when I was discovering and adapting to a different me. He kept following my new self; doing everything he could, to help that somehow clumsy, un-balanced, ungraceful creature, that happened to be me.

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