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Teresa Vale

Sailing

In PersonalTags sail boat, forty years, old friends, memory, sailing, 1982, sweethearts, Christopher CrossPublish Date6 June, 2022Leave a comment

  I still think of 1982 as the best year of my life, because so many wonderful things happened to me during that year. And you were definitely one of them.   You touched my life briefly; we both knew you could not linger, as we knew there was no future for us. But the moments we lived together were so special that we never forgot each other. I kept you as a cherished memory as I believe you kept …

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The pink lipstick

In Other StoriesTags Chanel, marriage, story, gift, lipstick, memory, pink, pink lipstickPublish Date24 January, 2022Leave a comment

  Every time she looks at the pink lipstick, stuck in a drawer together with the others, she remembers how special it is, because of its story.   It was given to her by her husband, in the final weeks of their marriage. They had come to a point when the uneasiness between them was something tangible, palpable. They were coming to the end of their journey together, she knew it. All it took was the courage to take a …

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The beginning of a love story

In Other StoriesTags memory, crazy things, love story, heart, secret, Spring, beginning, falling in love, exciting, exhilaratingPublish Date24 February, 2020Leave a comment

There’s nothing compared to the exhilaration you feel in the beginning of a love story.  Whatever the season, it always feels like Spring – the sky is blue, the sun is shining and warm, and there is a bright light in your life; it’s called being in love.   Falling in love Falling in love usually happens suddenly, as if you were hit by something. One day you look at a person you have known for a time, and you …

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Famous last words

In PersonalTags Mexicana, She, Elvis Costello, Church, memory, last words, Praça de LondresPublish Date2 July, 2016

  I’ve always said that after I’m dead I don’t care about what happens – after all I believe that my soul, that essence that determines what I am, will have flown to another dimension. But then of course the people in my life will stay on, and I sometimes I think what words I would like to leave them, along with the memory of what I have meant to them in this world. To my mother I would say …

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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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