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Christmas They are already strange in themselves, but there are those who are going to experience it with the extra pain of doing so after having lost a loved one to Covid. Or with the pain of having a sick family member. In this last situation there is
Maxim Huertawho has just presented a new book and who did not hide, during the minutes in which he attended the press, his concern for his mother.
The writer began by talking about that performance in ‘Mask Singer’, highlighting how fun it is always to dress up, because of the childish connotation it can have, and acknowledging that he was embarrassed to get on stage to sing. But he did it. ”
Have fun, life is four days. And I did it,” explained what was the shortest Minister in our history.
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I prefer a shrimp costume to some scoundrel costumes that you see in life.“, Máxim sent that message, without giving examples of anything or anyone. Leaving everyone free to choose in those ellipses the ‘non grata’ person who has made 2020 bitter.
Huertas took stock and talked about the delicate health of his mother, who has had to be in a bubble and whom he has been responsible for personally caring for. Some very hard moments for which he has used the best tools he knows to escape from problems: “I rely on books, on my dog, on the phone calling my friends now that they are far away. And on eating.
I lean on the things that sweeten my life. Be it a movie, a book or the muffins from the oven next door.”
Still waiting to find out the extent of his mother’s illness, he is very clear that Christmas will be spent alone by the two of them. That they will be his and her mother. Without even reaching those close to them. And he recognizes that he is not able to see the good side of this pandemic that is devastating everything: ”
I don’t know how to take out the positive part and the epic that others see. “If we have health and common sense, it is the only important thing right now.”
Three years ago, he already suffered a
loss so hard and painful like yours
father. A moment that led him to a state of melancholy that, surely, during those moments next to his mother, from whom he has not separated, his memory has assaulted him on the eve of a complicated Christmas.
