Cupid lit two lives in the darkness

Feb, 2015.- Finding Damian Escanel Romero and Yaneris Labrada Martinez was not difficult because everyone knows them in Guaimaro municipality. Perhaps because of the life lesson they share or the affable and simple nature of this boy and this girl that can touch, love, communicate and see each other, not through their eyes that life prevented them from seeing the light, but with their hearts that declare to feel full, satisfied, and happy.

The welcome at their home could not be warmer, this time Damian's mother had gone out but his grandmother Elsa, was there, near her beloved grandson that soon will feel the crying of his baby Jesus, yes, because in the early days of March, Damian and Yaneris will experience the indescribable feeling of being mom and dad.

After I apologized for my untimely and unplanned visit, without further ado the conversation started. I knew that Yaneris is from Campechuela, Granma municipality. I knew that she likes to recite, that she writes poems, integrates the radio hams group three years ago, has four brothers and found Damian thanks to a friend who gave her his phone number, she called him, and when she heard him, his voice captivated her.

The conversation with the couple flowed so freely that the formalities of a journalistic interview were put aside, of course I did not forget the requirements of the profession, but the freshness and expressiveness of Damian, born blind due to Glaucoma and Yaneris since she was two years and a half due to Hydrocephalus, showed their humane greatness and their incomparable way of fighting, going ahead and facing life.

Several questions revealed clear and passionate responses. On August 5, 2014, after experiencing the magical idea of living together since January 8, 2013, the protagonists of this story decided to get marriage.

While talking one expression of Damian provoked the most spontaneous of smiles: "When Yaneris visited me for the first time, she said she would return home in three days and you see, she has been here for two years and one month," when he said this, both hands joined as the roots of orchids when they take over the trunk to feed, beautify nature, live and endure.