Once upon a time there were two Masquefin girls who went to kindergarten and each had their first book to learn to read. It was the fifties. Montserrat had inherited it from her older sister and Carme from her brother. Two similar but different syllables. Carme wanted her friend's book, but Montserrat didn't want to exchange it for a toy. He only agreed to leave him there for a few days. "Montserrat, I'm sorry, I went out the window and the book fell down, I had to iron - where there was a fire to shoe the horses - and it burned." And, of course, you guessed it, the book appeared safe and sound in Carme's wallet.
From a very young age, Carme Junyent had a passion for books; then by languages. This anecdote and many others were heard on Saturday at the farewell ceremony held for him in Masquefa. By his express wish, there was no applause and everyone left with a book of his under their arm. Family members, friends, colleagues from the university and from GELA intervened... without any division of gender. On stage, a photo of her when she was five years old, with a pencil in her hand; the bright and piercing gaze already shone through his vocation to teach. And its motto: "To live together without renouncing diversity".
With each speech, new words were added to describe her: wise woman, coherent, determined, feminist, story teller, she had a privileged memory, stubborn, intelligent, lucid, the best Parrot in the fifth for Christmas, tireless , creative, did not want positions, temperamental, defender of minority languages, generous, eclectic, curious, rooted in the people with universal interests. And the most repeated adjectives: free and brave.
Journalist Marta Vives voiced the letter that Junyent left written as a farewell. With this advice: "Don't waste time, don't leave issues pending". And then the five hundred people who filled the room clapped (not applauded) to the music of the Pasada de festa major de Masquefa. At the moment of death we celebrate the joy of a full life.
