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Valerie... what a lovely think to say. I used to dream of publishing now I dream of writing. It's just something I have to do. Thank you very much. :-)

Carmen

Carmen, you are an artist, there is no doubt about it. You write with depth and beauty, allowing us to be with you in the very moments of despair and pain...and beauty as well. You and I had such different lives in far off lands, but both came to America as young girls and experienced the same new world. Although your Argentina is quite foreign to this English lass, I can relate to the girl you were...who wrote poetry that was lost (I did the same. I believe that no matter how different our cultures, we are all the same...you just managed to describe your experience in a more superior and haunting manner than most. Thank you for allowing me to see into your life. Valerie

This was a well written, exciting and breathtaking story. You told your story like a true artist and your vivid imagery was stunning!!

Thank you for sharing your work and thank you for the detail that you've placed in your craft.

God bless,

Tyrone

Bellísimo. Un cuento inolvidable. I enjoyed this piece very much. Since I was little, I would rather sit around the elderly to listen to their past lives, than to play with the other children. Children are the future, but we couldn’t make a better one if we didn’t ponder on the past lives our relatives experienced. I hope visiting the ghost of your past doesn’t affect you negatively. But know that your tale leaves a powerful message on the negative effects of bad choices made by men. Thank you for sharing this with us. Keep writing and sharing your wonderful stories. And I’ll keep reading. ;-)

BTW, I love Tango, can't dance it though. LOL. But I find it memerizing and magical. The silent art of passion, love, and seduction, where only eye contact and body movements says it all.

Carmen, you write with such passion, clarity, and precision! Your story grips me...indeed, we have two things in common: freedom and childhood fear. Yes, it is difficult to look back and write about it..having to confine one's memories and thoughts into a limited number of pages. I haven't tried yet, so I commend you for doing it and doing it so extremely well. Thank you for this superb piece of writing!

Gina

Thank you Carmen. It was a beautiful piece of writing. Your talent is quite rare. The way you juxtaposed words and images blending blood with wet leaves waiting to fall and gather in the gutter was truly poetic. It was quite an experience for a young lady and you told it well.

Hi Cleveland,

I've not been in for a while. I just now saw your comment. Thank you very much. It is a very ghostly story, and yes the shadows keep comming back. I've just recently been meeting with many of my cousings through facebook. We were kids togeter... I haven't seen them in 50 years.

Thanks again for reading my work.

Carmen

Hi Carmen
Thanks for posting this narrative told in such a dramatic way.. It is not easy to write a story like this but besides enjoying the read you've done well with the flash backs. When you mention dates I remembered where I was. That made things more real for me. Going back to the empty house stirs up lots of ghosts. I wonder if it is a good thing to revisit places from the past. The blood may have been washed away but always we see it in our mind's eye. We might walk away to fight another day but others were never that luck. It is a chilling thought.
Cleveland

We do have a new and very talented writer among us. When I think about the fact that English is her second language, when I think about what Carmen has been through, I nearly faint. But reading her work is to see her strength and beauty. To go from a hostile and once beloved homeland to the fractured life in America and yet survive to write with such beauty and such intense emotions is truly a gift from God. This story gives the reader so much more than one could hope for. Thank you, Carmen for giving voice to the past and giving readers a life view.

Thank you for the star. CR