- I know. But I’m glad I was able to keep it.
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We looked together the flowers in the garden.
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After a few minutes, Sofia said:
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Do you know what the hardest thing was for me?
↓ - Which One?
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Not to sell the car. Not even to sign the papers for the house. The hardest part was to go back and discover that the man I was willing to do all this had not been trusted me.
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I felt a lump in my throat.
↓ - I know.
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“But the most important thing I have learned is that love is not to be demonstrated by impossible sacrifices.
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I have approved.
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You are right.
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Sofia supported her head on my shoulder.
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“If we ever go through a real illness, a loss or a hard time, I want to know that we will be honest with each other.
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I gently squeezed her in my arms.
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That’s how we will be.
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The day I made up that disease, I thought money gave me the power to find out the truth about people.
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I thought I could build an impossible situation, notice the reactions of those around me and then decide who deserves to stay in my life.
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But I was wrong.
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Money could buy me a house.
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They could buy me a car.
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They could pay me the most expensive holidays and the best restaurants.
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But they couldn’t buy the trust we had destroyed.
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Nor could they wipe away the tears of a woman who thought the man she loved was dying.
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Sofia has shown me something I will never forget.
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Not that she was willing to give up everything for me.
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It is that true love is not measured in money, and trust should not be tested by lies.
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That evening, she entered the house forty-eight thousand euros and with the hope that she could save my life.
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I had millions in my accounts.
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But she was the only one of us who understood what it meant to love.
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And when I saw what sacrifices he had made, I cried like a child.
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Not because I was sick.
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But because, for the first time in my life, I saw how bad I had behaved with the man who loved me the most beautiful.
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Today I am no longer trying to find out how much Sophia’s love is worth.
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I’m just trying to be, every day, a man worthy of it.
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Because I’ve finally learned that the greatest wealth isn’t to have someone who would give up everything for you.
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It’s to have someone you can trust without ever asking them to prove it.
