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Sometime after starting this adventure, Miguel suggested that I should set aside some space and time to write about my own experience. For a while I I have been struggling about which aspect or point I would like to emphasise. In a way, I may say, it turned embarrassing for me to make comments about him. The fact is that I am not exempted from the “general principles of law”. Not only am I the person who helped him express his feelings, attitudes, behaviour, aspirations and skills but, I am for the rest of the days, his employee. The truth is that I would like to greatly thank him for allowing me be part of both things.

At the very moment we started this task which is coming to an end today, I was lucky enough to learn first-hand a rich and eloquent testimony which has often impressed and moved me deeply. I met Miguel twenty years ago and he has always been good at re-telling anecdotes and stories. Most of them have been written here. Then I have pictured, no doubt, a very moving story.

And as time went by, he trusted me to carry out this historical and personal account. He also gave me the chance to ask him again and once more, he gave me the necessary space to intrude on his privacy, his feelings and know much more than what was needed but all that my curiosity required to get a comprehensive view. Thanks to all this I have been able to picture before my eyes a story so moving that I am not sure my pen will be able to provide an accurate description.

Right now I might highly praise Miguel, compliment his strengths or even stand out his skills, but without deepening any of those aspects, I would like to say that he is a different man. I might stand out his achievements, recall his failures and frustrations, but I assume that nothing describes him better or as precisely as the name that he chose for his book.

I feel grateful to him for the opportunity to share the experience of this book. I am grateful for all this and for these twenty years during which he has honoured me with his friendship.

Alberto Miramontes

Miguel and Alberto during the last stage writing this book.