Ana was grateful that the publisher showed her so much affection and empathy with her insecurity when writing this work: “My son’s favorite phrase was ‘everything you do in this life with love has an echo in eternity’ and this is the only thing I have done since my son left, try to do with love everything that he would have liked and could not do. One of his wishes was to publish the book he was writingâ€.
The presenter explained that a friend of Aless’s helped her extract the 30 or 40 pages already started from her computer. “I didn’t know what to do, I had no strength. I waited two years until then. I read it very excited, what a talent my son had for writing, what a crap that cancer took away his dream… Susana spoke with HarperCollins and they told me that she had impressed them. I decided to start the book at the beginning, with that chapter called ‘That fucking March 23rd’ and finish with the end. I’ve been with it for nine months, just nine months locked up with this work. A work written by a mother with a mutilated heart and blood red ink. I don’t know how to write, she would send it to Olga, from the publishing house, and she would only tell her that she wrote from the heart without knowing if they were guiding me from aboveâ€.
“This work is a song to life and a song to death. This work is a tribute to my son but not only to him but to all the brave who fight to live with courage, be it against cancer or with illnessesâ€. Ana wants it to be an inspiring book so that we realize that life is not guaranteed for anyone: “Not for anyone who believes they have everything. It is a life lesson. I have known two worlds: one that was totally unknown to me, that of oncology plants or where the terminally ill are, where you see them struggling to live with those chemos, a healing poison that enters their bodies but with a smile. Then there is another world, that of complaints, that we complain about everything, that we criticize and judge and do not use something as beautiful as love.
