At forty years of age, twenty of them maddened and looking like a man in his sixties, he still had the strength to continue on the damn journey as a beggar for alms and so would his journey towards an uncertain and suffering future. He had no illusions that happiness would smile again, perhaps luck had already smiled enough and exhausted all opportunities. After all, it is not routine for good ladies and millionaires to appear, wanting to adopt poor people, especially when dealing with a grum