reviews_and_ramblings | Millennium by G.S. Wiley

Mark is an Australian Olympic Gymnast that during New Year's Eve of 2000 (the year in which Olympic were held in Sydney) instead of enjoying the holiday, is practicing. Mark is not at the best of his performance, but as an Australian athlete he can't not going to the Olympics, even if, maybe, it's not what he really wants. What Mark really wants is his lover Daniel, an mining engineer who is working far from Sydney: with Mark's training and physical problems, he can't leave Sydney, and Daniel can leave the mine only few time a year.

But on this special New Year's Eve, Daniel makes Mark happy, and he arrives to share the night with Mark and to say to his love to not worry, that he will always have an home and a lover, being a champion or not.

I like this story since it shows a moment in the life of two people that feel to me real; despite being deeply in love, Mark and Daniel live in different places due to their careers... love could be a very strong bond, but not always allow people to do as they wish. Secondly, I like that Mark is not an invincible hero... this is only a night in their life, 25 pages, so we don't know if Mark will make the Olympics or if he will be a winner, but we know that he is real, with doubts and hopes, and we know that, in a way or another, after the games, he will still have a life, not glamorous, but probably happy.

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