I hadn't seen him in a couple of years. He has passed 80 years of living now, and I knew he had been severely ill. I met him on a good day. He looked young and happy.
I was glad to meet him. "How are you doing?" I asked.
He looked at me with shining eyes and a beautiful smile. "I am almost on the top stair now. Soon I am home!"
The photo is from the Italian island Ponza, outside Terracina, from the summer of 2005.
