The encounter:

The door opened slowly. The woman waited under the morning sun patiently, and only dared to give a step when she saw her confidence reflected on her doctor´s eyes. He put his cold hand on Rita´s cheek. This gentile caress made her react. After five years and endless treatments she was about to see the beauty of liberty. Behind her remained all the bad memories and the shadows that put her in that place. Now, Rita was a different woman, and she couldn´t wait to let the world know it. The woman turned around for the last time, just to see the doctor waving at her. Suddenly ahe had a feeling: yes, Lucio was there. She put the small suitcase on the floor and when he approached she spread out eager hands with which she looked for the face of her lover. The one who had stayed by her side during this difficult time. He smiled at her and kissed her lips. First softly, and then full of the passion that only true lovers are able to express. Rita was happy. Now everything would be OK again. There was nothing to fear and she knew it, ´cause that´s what he transmitted through his look. They walked slowly, together, speechless, just smiling, thinking of all the things they haven´t say to each other. For a moment Rita felt an axelaration in her heart, but then she calmed down. There would be enough time to say all what they wanted. Again the beating. On the one hand she was tempted to look back, but on the other she was afraid that this could have been a dream, and that she would wake up in her bedroom, alone. Lucio loved and knew this fragile woman so much that he guessed what she was thinking. He stopped and turned around together with Rita, to prove her taht it was all right. When she did it she saw the old fence closed, and understood that this was real. With a little, almost unhearable sigh she closed this chapter of her life. A chapter in which her tears and suffering had been the perfect soil in which to plant a new tree of hope and love.
Lucio offered her his strong shoulder and Rita put her head on it confidently.