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Rafael

The hot and sultry days of July are difficult to bear in the country. The air is so heavy to consume all energies, even breathing requires effort.

is the second hard, hard summer Rafael passes in Italy, to work in the "White Horse Ranch." More terrible hot asfisiante for a keeper of horses, there is only the big chill. In January and February when the ice covers all thing and freezes any movement, even the most subtle.

two years ago he left his homeland, his family, his life, the real one made of emotions, dreams, hopes, difficulties and even failures, but always shared with loved ones, that where the hard work has paid off in the evening when you come home, see the smile of your wife and your daughters plays that tell you what they learned in school. It

spent almost a year since he managed to return to Romania for a few weeks since the last time she saw her children. Nina, his wife came to visit him rather recently, there was only a few days, but when the difficulties require such a sacrifice we learn to truly appreciate the immense value contained in the expression "only a few days."

Every evening, after finishing to distribute the hay, after ten hours of toil and sweat, after having dinner with the family of his employer, Rafael across the field to get sand in his small apartment behind the saddle. Around him, darkness and silence, broken only from barking dogs. It's like a ritual that is repeated at the end of each day, a short time set in the path from the house to the building of the upholstery. In that short stretch of road is free to think what can not stand this life. Two shoveling manure times a day in each box, in every paddock, and the smell of horse is imprinted on his clothes and his skin. But this is not: he loves all this , loves "his" horses, the only friends in this foreign land, the only ones who are not only meeting to tell him to do something, to be faster, to cure Pablo and the leg to fix the fence, the only ones who do not look at him smugly while moving bales of hay in the hot sun, the only people who would ask if they could talk to in the morning "how are you?".

is this indifference, this pathetic air of superiority, this distance that Rafael would wash away with the smell of manure mixed with mud or bare ground. But the soap is not enough.

Moreover there is still little, a few months, a couple of years at most, and then will return to his family to return to live a dignified life and happy.

Hundreds of miles away, a girl of six years while his mother weeps disinfects the knee after a fall from the bicycle and reassures her that when learning to ride is easy to fall, but then gets up and puts you in saddle, the next day.

His father does not know who is falling, which is now frightened. Maybe he thinks that soon he will teach her to ride to and maybe we can not guess the surprise waiting for him to see that have already learned. And even if you do not know what that is, already beset by the regret of not being able to see that first fall.