Thank you very much for so much happiness, Maruja Torres

A columnist for this newspaper once told me that, without knowing it, he saved a woman's life.

When she went to pay the bill for a meal, the waitress refused, she invited: it was her way of making up for it after a book of hers had dissuaded her from committing suicide.

I don't know if Maruja Torres has saved someone from death, but she saved me from a life I didn't want.

Of an adolescent and, therefore, hyperbolic existence, surrounded by grayness and incomprehension, of an intimate isolation so daily that it seemed natural.

From being a fish out of water that, because I didn't know, I didn't even know that there is a sea.

Opening this newspaper and reading it was, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson's poem that gave the title to one of her novels—the first of hers that I read—“a warmth as close as if the sun were shining on the hand.”

Two minutes that validate a thousand self-help books.

Sunday (9:25 p.m.) in La Sexta.

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— Lo de Évole (@LoDeEvole) February 25, 2023

Enjoy it at

has led me to then.

To those Oscar chronicles, to those

that she signed with her email —yes, I sent her

that she answered attentively—, to the reports, to the interviews, to the books, to the book signings, to her television interventions.

To begin to peek through a crack at the life that I wanted with shame, like so many youthful desires, and that now I am fortunate to be able to enjoy.

Because if today I live from writing, I owe it to her first.

The pain that life gives you, as she said on the show, "you have to take it on a short leash and get it to keep up with you, because if you start running, you're lost."

But her happiness must be enjoyed and given away with a very wide sleeve.

Thank you very, very much for so much, Maruja.

The story of the murder of his partner Juantxu Rodríguez by a US soldier and the survivor syndrome.

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– Lo de Évole (@LoDeEvole) February 26, 2023

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