A great beginning is sometimes at the point of what you thought would be the end of everything. —Dodinsky "Put your ear to the sky and listen my darling, everything whispers I love you." It was on a Friday afternoon—3:08 PM to be exact on the eighth day of
January 2021—when an email arrived and asked in the subject line: Are you still out there?
The sender, Jennifer, was hoping to reach the Vietnamese writer on the
other side of the question, the writer who had disappeared years ago
without saying goodbye and letting her readers know what happened to her
story. Jennifer pressed on in her email: she had been there for a while She arrived in Spannocchia one summer day, seeking to remove the
writer's block she was experiencing. She had never been to Italy,
never stayed at a farm estate. Joining a group of ten writers she had
never met, she stepped inside the villa, the magical place tucked away
in Tuscany. With the birth of creativity in her hand, she took in the moment of realizing a dream coming to life. She leaned forward and with the tap of her trackpad, she opened her online miamese shop. One by one, the reviews came together and were alighting everywhere. It didn't seem momentous at the time when Mia stepped away from her desk and writing a novel. A break was needed, and she decided to try again to find a housewarming gift for her sister and her family. She returned to Anthropologie, opening the double wooden doors. She wasn't expecting much when she entered the two-level store. |
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