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Wendie Donabie's avatar

Your words are poetry in this piece filled with love and sorrow yet somehow imbued with hope. I know nothing of the Azores but your writing has stirred a desire in me to someday visit and experience this magical place that feeds your soul.

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Alison Gadsby's avatar

Gorgeously written and gave me all the warm and fuzzies. I am loving all these pieces, Anthony. I would love to go to the Azores and this makes me want to go now!

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Anthony De Sa's avatar

You must go!

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mary's avatar

thanks for sharing i heard Portugal is lovely, Enzo good friend & wife are going next month.

hope to go on a trip to ireland, italy & portugal.

we are def. connected some ways, hows from our ansestors.

see post re my dad FB I reland & my moms step dad Hungarian- jewish

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Cindy Watson's avatar

Beautifully crafted and evocative (as always). I love this idea of being pulled into a story (i.e. when you arrived it was as if you'd been pulled into a story you'd heard countless times as a child) - made me imagine being pulled into Swiss Family Robinson or Huckleberry Finn's world.

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Esmeralda@shaw.ca's avatar

Ok this made me tear up. You put into beautiful words that feeling I have never really been able to identify. That invisible thread also pulls me to the island time and again, even though I left with my parents when I was a young child. Thanks for this, Anthony.

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Anthony De Sa's avatar

Lovely, Esmeralda.

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