At first, Maria connected everything to the premature birth. She convinced herself that, with time, everything would improve. But the serious faces of the doctors said something else.
After the final tests, the family heard the word that changed their entire life.
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Progeria.
A rare genetic disease in which signs of accelerated aging begin to appear in a child’s body from a very early age.
For a long time, Maria could not accept that word. Her daughters had just been born. How could their bodies already be fighting against time? Daniel took the news even harder. When he returned home, he sat for a long time on the floor of the nursery, staring at the two cribs he had built with so much love.
That night, their home was silent again, but it was a different kind of silence. The silence before had been waiting. Now, it was fear.
