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Teresa Vale

Visiting hours

In FamilyTags Ed Sheeran, illness, independent spirit, Mom, pain, Parkinson's disease, visiting hours, withdrawnPublish Date4 April, 2022Leave a comment

  There’s a recent song by Ed Sheeran called “Visiting hours”. I’m not really sure about the story it tells, but it must be a sad one, and every time I hear it I remember my visits to Mom and the pain I feel to see her as she is, not to mention the pain she must be feeling herself.   Mom was an independent woman if ever there was one. She went to university, graduated, and took a job …

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Mothers in the distance

In Other StoriesTags children, cleaning lady, distance, Guinea-Bissau, mothers, pain, revolutionPublish Date8 February, 2022Leave a comment

  I miss him terribly, my son who went away two months ago to work in Amsterdam. Hopefully, only for a year, but no one knows.   These two months have felt like two centuries. When dusk falls, and I’m alone in our huge apartment, when I pass by his empty bedroom and fail to hear his key in the front door lock coming from work, I feel an immense sadness invade me. A sadness that fell over me the …

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If only I could

In FamilyTags crutches, dreams, heart, heartache, hope, love. light, mother, pain, sorrow, Spring, wordsPublish Date15 February, 2020Leave a comment

If only I could bear the weight of your pain upon my shoulders, If only it could be me wearing those crutches whose metallic sound on the floor has become so hard to bear. If only I could rip the heartache out of your chest and bring it into mine, Knowing your heart would henceforth be beating peacefully and joyfully. If only I could wipe away the infinite sorrow from your beautiful blue eyes, Whose bewildered look breaks my own …

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Passion

In Other StoriesTags fire, hatred, heart, heartbreak, love, pain, passion, sportPublish Date31 December, 2019Leave a comment

I have written many times about love, but I really believe passion is what makes the world go round. Be it passion in the positive way, that is often related to love, or the opposite, passion fuelled by anger, turning into hatred.   As the year ends, I think of stories of passion unravelling before my eyes. With passion, sooner or later, there comes a companion, and that is pain, heartbreak. For when passion hits is it is so strong …

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Hasta siempre

In FriendsTags hasta siempre, heart, mother, pain, parent, SpanishPublish Date26 January, 2019Leave a comment

This is a Spanish expression with no literal translation into English. We have it in Portuguese and we use it when we don’t really want to say goodbye to someone, when we know it’s not likely we’ll see each other again but still we want to leave that door open; it means maybe one day we’ll be together again.   It is something we say when we lose someone we love and the thought of a new meeting somewhere in …

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The old patriarch

In FamilyTags hospital, old patriarch, old people, pain, terrified, wife, wintertimePublish Date5 February, 2017

The hospital emergency is packed. The old patriarch is lying on a bed in a corridor turned into an improvised ward. Most of the patients are elderly people like him. This winter has been harsh, very cold and now rainy and damp, and flu quickly turns into pneumonia…and then the whole bloody list of diseases that came with old age goes crazy: his diabetes, his heart condition…damn old age, he thinks and he closes his eyes and tries to remember happier …

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I was born in Mozambique in the sixties but have lived in Lisbon , Portugal, with my family, for most of my life.

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