I was born in an era of despair, and I have lived a solitary childhood as a scavenger.
 
My grandfather used to tell me a lot of things.  He told me that "The Blast" wiped out a century of technology and population from our planet.  He told me that train locomotives of metal construction, a form of archaic human vehicle, were the pinnacle of radioactive shields, and were worth a thousand times more than iodine tablets or canned foods.

He told me that trust was hard to claim, and that friendship was even harder to come by in a post-apocalyptic world. But he never told me about hope - until you. I will never forget, how you took my breath away, the first time we met at the train station.

“The Apocalypse is gone.
War has left.
So let’s be cheery.
We need not worry.
The end never comes twice!”
 
You sang aloud as you brought me into your life on a train; you were playful and trusting; you were everything I never knew before and everything I wanted to learn more about. 

You brought me hope.
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Widely regarded as the finest example of railway architecture in Belgium, Antwerp Central has a eclectic, fictional aesthetic that has yet to be categorized to any architectural style, making it the only one of its kind on the planet. It is colloquially known as the "railway cathedral" locally and has been titled the most beautiful railway station in the world.