Our life depends on our perception of reality. I do not remember if I told you the story of Jacob’s girlfriends’ uncle. He is serving few life sentences in America. 30 years ago before getting there he was a well known brain surgeon. He divorced his wife and left his former family and grown up children for another woman. His first wife was found dead shortly afterwards. The circumstances of her death were not clear. Some people say he was accused in murder by his children who wanted revenge and money. Indeed, he was rich. Whatever happened, if he killed her or not, nobody can tell anything now for sure – things can terrible mesh up and become very confusing in 30 years time.
In jail he learnt Jewish, Torah and became a rabbi.
When Jacob and his girlfriend went to see him, he was a very old man, in his early eighties. He told them that in the last few years his life dramatically changed to better. Apparently, they moved him to another cell, so he could see a tree from his window instead of brick wall now.
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