She runs to me and I enfolded her in my arms to embrace her; felt her body shaking as her lips touch mine. Sex I should be happy but I am perplexed and amazed and disturbed by thoughts that haunted me all night. It will not help. That memory has never left me. I ask my sister to close her eyes for her surprise. Strangely, I’m thinking of the time when my sister went away from home; the fire in the fireplace to heat the water and the tub placed in front of the fireplace that was used for bathing. We go into every room in the house and my sister continually bursts out with cries of wonder and amazement. She’s been gone from Sardinia for over thirty years and, at that time, I forget, was eighteen or nineteen years old. That same afternoon, Marisa started making love with me and since then we’ve done it a few times. I have not slept all night, I’m nervous, I do not understand why. It will not help. Even now, in the car while I go to the airport to pick up my sister, I just think the day of her departure from home, to her words, “Mateo, I will come back one day . …
