Dear Lucca,
I appreciate so much your story. Yes, I'm certain returning is most
difficult. Things change, while our memories of them do not. I have
found at times that, even after I see a treasured place or a person
after many years, I revert still to the "older" memory, and fail,
probably to the good, to "update" my remembrances ...
I am going "back" in the name and spirit of my father and his family and
his family who came before. I used to my dad and uncles talk about
Czernowitz - with enormous smiles, great stories and fondness. They'd
pine, they'd laugh, and they'd describe their lives with love and such
nostalgia I often even as a child felt I was there. So perhaps there
will be that inevitable reluctant molecule from 100 years ago that
somehow attaches to an eyelash or a fiber of my being that I can bring
"home" with me after 2 weeks of "re-living" that past of my father!
Best to you,
N
Received on 2005-06-13 08:35:33
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