Ginette too noticed that she had become more appreciative of the small pleasures of life. She felt profoundly changed by her experience.
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But I believe that it completely changes a person, it changes your attitude towards life. The little pieces of happiness, what I call the little pieces of happiness, sometimes it is not much. Before I didn’t see them but now I do. The neighbor that comes here, that comes to talk to us, she is 4 years old, she is so funny, she is nice. I gave her a flower one day, she comes back to thank us and it was so funny! You know the little pieces of happiness that I didn’t even see before, but now, today, you are more focused on the current moment because you know that your life is fragile. You know that… Still I am, I will be 64. You are more focused on living, I would say, intensely. This is very important.
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