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<\/a>“So this is Christmas, and what have you done”, Adam asked me with a sad expression on his face. It was six months after he had survived \u00a0the hell he had been thrown in because of Peter Kane.\u00a0 I could feel how my son was still distressed, he tried to \u00a0assure\u00a0that everything \u00a0would turn out well, But I could see on his face that he was deeply touched by what he had had to face. As if he would have lost his faith \u00a0in humanity. That was what he had told me , one night, as a nightmare had awoke him. My son had had disturbed night since it had happened and six months later, I could feel, there still was tension in his body. I came close to him and put my hand on his shoulder. I was hoping, it would help him to relax. He smiled to me and gave me a glass of brandy.<\/p>\n