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Room with a view
The first thing I did when I arrived at our apartment was open the doors to the balcony to take full advantage of having a room with a view. There it was: a magnificent view over the Sardinian Bay. For a change the travel guide had not exaggerated. Before me miles and miles of glittering white…
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Predator
Softly he strides with total disdain,showing none of the hidden painit must give him to be in a cage,to suppress his predatory rage.Only his constant majestic ambulationreveals some of his intense irritation.He should be prowling the open plain,should be showered by the cooling rain,be the leader of the pride,roam the steppes far and wide.The reason…
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Last will and testament Sylvia Lowik
Music funeral: For my mother : Ave Maria sung by Dame Janet BakerFor my father: I did it my way by Frank SinatraFor my husband: I will always love you by Dolly PartonFor Duncan : Close to you by the CarpentersFor Gerald:I am happy by Pharell Williams I want to be cremated as cheaply as…
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Harbour Cities Midland
Chapter One- A beautiful day No one would have thought that this beautiful sunny morning would end the way it did. It was one of those days in April that could make you believe summer had already arrived.Gulls, squawking like a bunch of squabbling fishwives, were swooping around the cliff tops, now and then diving…
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Ship Irpinia, 28th of August, 1957
Looking through old photo’s of my parents to find some nice ones of my godmother Jeanne, who has recently passed away, I came upon the bill of passage of our voyage on the ship Irpinia, leaving Flushing on the 28th of August, 1957.My parents, or should I say my father, had decided to exchange dreary…
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Diary 1969
Just found my diary from 1969 and have been reading it, feeling amused and embarrassed about that 15-year-old, who thought she had it all figured out.It starts with an About me, mainly fixated on what I looked like: My name is Sylvia Lowik. I am born on ..54 in G the Netherlands. When I was…
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31-10-2018
No this is not the Post Apocalypse with people fleeing the zombies. As everywhere in Europe, the poor and dispossessed are on the move looking for a better future, about 7000 of them. Europe has taken in more than 1.5 million over the past 5 years being much smaller and more densily populated than the…
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25-10-2018
Amazing how legislators of all the EU countries can get together and discuss the problem we are having with plastic in the environment and come up with the solution to forbid plastic earbud sticks, straws and to have caps attached to the millions of plastic bottles being used by everyone. And it will all first…
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17-10-2018
Never thought I would be sitting in a classroom again surrounded by 24 excitable 10 year old children. But there I was trying to get myself familiarized with the current methods of teaching lower grade kids math. What I was not prepared for being my age was the near chaos that seemed to be the…
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