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She did not forget at 89 years of age to buy the book for her granddaughter for her birthday as she has done every year since she learned to read.
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Juan Sim (1932-2021) was born in Alcoy, Alicante, and had the healthy habit of giving his granddaughter a book every birthday since she learned to read. Juan passed away, aged 89, last summer, but before leaving he did not forget his granddaughter’s anniversary and left a book, the last one he would buy for her.
The unexpected gesture of his grandfather, has led Cris Sim, who from his account on the social network shows his being in life A lot of laughter so that nothing hurts us, to tell who his grandfather was through a thread, in which he also makes a special mention of his auntIsabel Clara Yes, considered one of the most important in Catalan literature of the last century. In 2017 he received the Honorary Award for Catalan Letters and in 1999 the Cross of Sant Jordi.
The story that has moved network users, in view of the clicks to the heart of the thread, has become a full-fledged tribute to an “incredible man who lived in a unique way” and who “made books his best friends.” In addition, all the knowledge he gained was generously shared.
Juan’s father, Rafael, was a professor at his own academy, the Sim Academy, which managed to stay open throughout the Civil War and the postwar period. Contacts and acquaintances on both sides were key to keeping their doors open. Alcoy recognized his work with a street in the Alicante town (carrer Professor Sim Als) but until that recognition “on neither side was he well looked at” since he had received help from both of them.
Knowing this, he secluded himself and confined himself to his home, a decision that affected his son Juan, Cris’s grandfather. “So my grandfather was almost always alone and had practically no friends,” she writes, knowing that they were the books that saved his life because with them he made friends and traveled all over the world without leaving home.
“My grandfather made books his best friends. Before he was ten years old, he already read the great classics. He read many hours, many books and of many kinds. his room, between the ages of 7 and 15.
Juan Sim graduated in 10 years in Chemistry (there was no Mathematics degree in Valencia then, which was his passion) because, having to continue teaching at the family academy and not being able to attend the University, he studied on his own, without teachers. nor companions. In solitary.
This is the thread that Cris wrote, as a tribute, after attending his funeral with a shirt with the number Pi, because his grandfather showed him the first twenty digits of it because “My grandfather was the first geek and I am very proud of being thanks to him. Yes, I know the first 20 digits of the number pi by heart. And very happy “.
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