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For some people boring, rainy Thursday but for Luci, it wasn't an ordinary day, in fact … it was her last day. Two months ago she celebrated her 81st birthday lonely among the people she didn't know at all. Yes, new environment gave her unbearable stress. Why? The Psychiatric clinic she found herself in four months ago, wasn't simply a place she imagined spending her last days or months of life. Why did they do it? Who was responsible for it? She was hopeless, empty and confused.

In some months Luci started considering herself robot. Every day was routine and the same. It drived her more insane than she in fact was. One late afternoon somebody knocked on her door. She felt insecure but said: "Come in." She couldn't walk, so she better stayed in her bed. Suddenly so many people entered her small, dark room. Luci was astonished and surprised, however didn't have a clue what was going on. In one or two minutes she started recognizing the people – her visitors and their faces. Oh myyyyyyyy!!! Luci didn't believe her eyes. In front of her were many old friends she has stopped being in touch with for several years. She was in the center of the attention and she liked it a lot. They all were talking and talking, somebody brought a chocolate cake, so they ate it all together and enjoyed gossiping about those, who didn't appear or have already passed away. Finally Luci was again living and was extremely happy. So extrremely happy that in one hour her golden heart couldn't stand it and she died of heart attack.

No matter how good or bad Luci's life was but the point is that she died happy and that is what counts. We will always remember her as a kind, helpfull and crazy woman, who lived her life as she wanted, not as others wanted her to do.  

                                                      -300-