The birthday party

My birthday was approaching, and my girlfriend Roberta, who for days had been undecided about the gift she wanted to give me — she told me “I want to give you something that really pleases you, something you have been wanting for a long time” — suddenly stopped tormenting me with this continuous concern, from which I sensed that she had finally found what she had been looking for for a long time. The tranquility of the days before the date of the…