I had the luck to have a mother desperate with a despair so unalloyed that sometimes even life's happiness, at its most poignant, couldn't quite make her forget it.
Zorte horixe izan dut nik, horrelako ama izatea, halako etsipen garbi batek joa, hain etsipen garbia ezen bizi-pozak berak ere, oso handia izanik ere, ez baitzuen, batzuetan, erabat distraitzen.