“What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.” – Friedrich Nietzsche - It was since last spring that Samira’s memories were being eaten down by her disease with a grave vengeance. I remember that day vividly, I was back home from another grueling day of work, knocked on the door more than 10 times and looked through the window to see her staring timidly at the door knob. ‘I forgot how to open this thing!’ she said with a laugh. *** I fell in love with her laugh. I fell in love with the innocence of it. I fell in love with the way it repetitively defeated my depressions. When I said I loved her I knew the repercussions. I knew how a group of people, united by a subservient attitude to a set of unwritten rules, would react to the idea of us, two women, sharing a life. For them my love, our love woul...