Darío Barassi once again opened his heart publicly and, two years after his mother's death, published an extensive and moving message on social media where he recounted how he experienced this special day, filled with memories, family rituals, and an unexpected 'sign' that accompanied him from early on. Everything began, as he himself recounted, when a white butterfly appeared in the middle of the morning while he was having breakfast: 'A white butterfly appeared. I feel it's her. It hurts me, but I also like it,' he wrote, as the Argentine News Agency was able to find out. Barassi confessed that he had planned to go to the cemetery, as he usually does when in San Juan, but a message from his wife changed the course of his day: 'I receive a message from my wife wishing to be close on a special day.' He also detailed that he had gathered pinecones that remind him of her and her pinecone Christmas ornaments throughout the house. He also mentioned that he tidied up the 'dreamcatcher' that his grandmother would always check whenever they went to the cemetery: 'Task accomplished,' he wrote. Barassi admitted that it surprised him not to have the date so present, but far from blaming himself, he took it as a sign of healing: 'I think it's healthy. She stayed for a good while, she wanted something. The complete opposite. Anyway, what matters is elsewhere: you and I know it. It was only then that I realized what day it was today, why that white butterfly was there looking at me judgmentally, as if saying 'fatty, stop with the hotel breakfast and come give me love and flowers',' he recounted, mixing emotion with the humor that characterizes him. 'Today two years have passed since you left, my dear old lady.' After remembering the date, Barassi decided to visit her anyway. Although he didn't find fresh flowers, he improvised with what he had on hand: 'I found some dried out by the intense San Juan sun, but you loved to dry purple flowers and make that potpourri with a nice smell. You have already forgiven my forgetfulness and you leave in peace. You left your mark forever,' he expressed with tenderness. The butterfly, according to the host, also symbolically marked the end of the encounter: 'There the butterfly left with the wind. The wound is healing. This cap loves you. I no longer feel farewell or absence. I smile. You are here, old lady,' he assured. He listed the ways in which he feels her presence: 'In Inés's eyes, in Emi's memories, in my wife's loving and necessary arms, in my brothers and our memories, in the vitel toné and the Quacker wafer, in the music, in the wind, and in the white butterflies.' Although he thought it would be 'just another visit,' the experience ended up being loaded with meaning: 'It turned out to be a special day. Guacha. I speak to her.'
