How Europe became your shield against adversity.

Well, no many news at the moment.

So, maybe it's time to tell you my real story.
How the band EUROPE "brought me back to life", in a way...

A rather disagreeable event happened to me a few years ago.
It could sound incredible or even funny, but in fact, that's only the truth :
I was travelling in Egypt, and I've been trapped in an underground of Denderah, the temple of goddess Hathor.
Yes, that's what happened to me.

I was so happy to visit this underground with some other privileged people : something very unusual ! I didn't know when I entered in it heartily that I would be such a different woman when finally going out of it.!!!

Well, I went to Egypt several times, and I always had bad experiences with this Denderah temple. Don't know why... (one day, I walked in a corridor full of bats : awful :-X)
The funny fact with it is that I was often told by several Egyptologists that with my hair, I looked very much like the goddess Hathor (which could seem first not very flattering, because Hathor is a cow sometimes, but is fine in fact, because Hathor is the goddess of sun and love ! ) But well, I wonder if the goddess didn't feel angry because of this comparison... But it didn't bring luck to me.

All right, I'm laughing now.
But I wasn't laughing that much when I finally went out of this small dark, and hot underground where air was missing. It was a kind of tomb, really ! And when I went out of it, I still wasn't aware of it, but in fact, my mind was not able to feel free again, and had to stay "trapped in the tomb" for many years !!!

I realized there was a problem only some weeks after the event... I was in Berlin then. I had to take the subway. And as soon as the doors of the train closed, I began to suffocate.
I had become claustrophobic !
I was in such a panic that I was crying, screaming (althought I'm generally a rather shy and discreet person...). That was horrible. I would have opened the doors of the train while it was running if my mother had not stopped me.
And it was terrible for the other passengers, too - not too many, fortunately ! I remember this poor man in front of me, in a grey costume : he was holding tigh his suitcase on him like for protecting him from me (a memory that still makes me laugh, I must say).

After that, my life literaly "stopped" in many ways.

And it's EUROPE who gave me the strength to fight against this severe claustrophobia. No medicine, no drugs : I fighted all alone with the desire of seeing Europe.

That's why I see like a kind of miracle the fact that one day, in 2007, I discover this band. A band so far from my own universe !!! Normally, I should never have become a fan of them...
And my tenderness goes especially to Ian, who was the first step towards my admiration for this band (in a very funny and unusual manner, I must say, because the way I "met" EUROPE one day is a surprising story, too ...)
Well, it was a long road until I completely "unchained" myself.
But EUROPE helped me, for sure : I wanted so much to see them that I braved the shutting of planes ! Very difficult the first times ( I remember when I went to Norway the first time : so hard to climb in the plane that i nearly canceled the travel at the very last second !).
But every journey was easier.
And 5 years after, I'm nearly "normal" again.

So Vonny, what do you think of this story ?
Is there something that could give some inspiration to the band ?