Emotions as rarely happen to feel, a devastating suffering that reveals moments of emotion. It happens when a young, albeit intense, life of a girl who attended the second scientific high school with sports address, in Porto Torres , and dreamed of graduating, is broken.
To Elisa Riccobono , the 15-year-old who died in a road accident in Li Punti, on February 29, 2020, the "M.Paglietti" high school awarded an honorary high school diploma , that certificate that today, after three and a half years since the tragedy, could have framed. This morning the conclusion of the oral tests, supported by his classmates in front of the examination board. « A sweet stab , one of the many beautiful events organized by this school that my daughter attended, for something that remains in the heart and that hurts every time, but which also gives moments of joy», comments Gavina Cubeddu, Elisa's mother .
«A daydream come true», adds the father, Pierpaolo Riccobono. « Think of all the projects that he could have carried out , imagine the concrete things of his future, such as a diploma, professional life and marriage. This one today is a little pearl, a gift they are giving to Elisa and to us parents». With a "thank you", they addressed his schoolmates , teachers, school administrators and the many friends present at the symbolic graduation ceremony.
«You guys, now you have a mission», said Angela Laura Dettori, president of the examination commission, «you have to bring to fruition not only your projects and your dreams, but also a piece of Elisa , for an opportunity that she has not got. Do not waste this opportunity and remember that those who have loved us never abandon us ». Elisa's smiles and grimaces in a video souvenir, broadcast in the conference room, images that tell of her passion for dance school and for studies.
Her sweetness also in the verses of a poem written for her, read by the student Gabriel Zulberti during the ceremony: «You just went into the next room. What you were to us, you always are." Her adolescence remains in the memory of her friends, Roberta Pazzona, 19, and Anna Pisanu, 18. "I remember her from when I was ten, then different paths in school but always united in life," said Anna. «A sincere and sunny person with a nice “temper”, but also very sweet», added Roberta. It's hard to forget that "cursed" day, when he lost his life aboard a motorcycle driven by a friend who was then 17 years old. They were together at a Carnival party, then the decision to take a ride, but down the road the tragic fate.
