"It's a shame you don't stay. You would have become a good merchant, like your father. But become a good doctor. It's worth more."

It was the first time I saw him get up from his desk and accompany me to the door. As we walked down the hallway, he grabbed a package of dates and a second one with dried banana pieces, put them in a bag, and offered them to me.

"Take these Egyptian fruits, my friend, to remember this holy place where you grew up."

The prose narratives of Stamatis Vasilakis refer to personal experiences, from his school years in Cairo to the present day. Part of these narratives constitutes the current edition, "The Dolphin and Other Stories".

It is a sincere and confessional narration of life, a source of enjoyment and inspiration for today's reader. The author Vasilakis is equally successful as the doctor Vasilakis in comforting souls and bodies.