Of course some friends told me that her love for me began almost at the same time that I received an inheritance from my aunt from Canada, but I could read the envy in their eyes, I knew that’s all it was…. I was curious to see what would happen next, but worse, Diana’s new behavior frightened me. Cancer, AIDS, leprosy, psoriasis, sclerosis, and many other diseases that modern medicine still could not treat: now they declare them cured. That is what nobody seems to understand.”
He wanted to insist on it, but I did not let him. “Diana, what are you doing? “I have heard that before,” I said, bored. Diana, of course. It was easy for him to talk, because he did not love Diana, and maybe he had never been in love. I took another pill from the bottle and thought again of Diana before sinking into the thick mist of the brutal sleep induced by the sleeping pill.
