Sarno River

She could hear the running water. Like every morning, Sarah Beni woke up a little before dawn and set out for a walk. She liked to go before dawn. It was not the light that mattered to her for she was blind. What she liked was to smell the air, to walk in silence and to hear the sounds of the first birds. Everyday she went on the same route, she knew it by heart now because for 20 of her 30 years she has been coming on the same route every morning. She loved to be by herself because it was only then that she could be herself, it did not matter if she tripped on a rock, no one would make fun of her or rush to help her. She liked to walk from her house till the river. She started to feel the first rays of the day. That was the best part, to sit by the river of Sarno with the sun directly hitting her and this to that young blind lady was happiness...