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Date Posted: 13:34:49 03/19/08 Wed
Author: gigi
Subject: Okay, I had a rough night, thinking and thinking over this topic. The fact is that, even though I can write articulate stories, I can't pretend that all that hurt is necessary to the story itself. Not that much. There are nuances of hurt/comfort in my jobs and I should look into myself so as I could learn why I'm so overwhelmed by this kind of emotions. I met my characters tonight too and they were serious but not mad at me. They simply asked why. "Why are you doing this to us?" I cried, I need tears to wash away some of the dirt . Inside you'll find a little resume of my Marie Claire, probably my better job.
In reply to: gigi 's message, "Here is the question. Inside." on 14:24:12 03/18/08 Tue

Marie Claire is inspired by an existent person. She's in her eighties and she plays tennis two hours a day, goes to ski, rides horses...I mean it, she's like that.
She lived til 18 y.o. in a boarding school with nuns. All the rest I invented.

Marie Claire lives in Caen (Normandie). She's a single, little gray woman with teeth à la Bugs Bunny.
Harm is in London. Mac in San Diego. They never had 'the talk'. Mattie is at college and is living on her own.
Mother Superior has a hard time with Canadian Government. A family descendent from a Canadian soldier who married a girl in the neighborhood is giving its land to the Canadians to build a museum.
Mother Superior says that land is stil part of the abbey and asks for arbitration from a third party.
French Government would have close the case, but mother superior (she's terrible) asks the americans. Harm's coming.
He resolves the case and becomes friend with Marie Claire, who is the interpreter.
They spend some time together, in and out of the abbey, searching old documents.
Before Harm leaves (he is coming back to US for vacation) Marie Claire takes him to the Caen Memorial.
They talk about themself and get close.
Harm tells MC about his father, his ramp strike etc.
MC tells about her experience in the resistance during WWII. She lost her boyfriend when they have been arrested by German police.
They go to the American Cemetery, where MC sees three generations of american servants: a veteran, a very young marine and Harm. What we have do without those soldiers on those beaches that Day?
Then MC takes Harm to a little cemetery, where Paul is buried. She talks to him as if he was alive and bring to the burial what she finds interesting in her living, pushing away flowers, she isn't interested in flowers, but has placed a sculpture, books etc.
Before he leaves Harm calls Mac on the phone and something eventually happens.
At the airport MC waves to the jet in which there is Harm:
-Regarde, Paul, regarde!

What if I had my mother or father hugging me and telling me it was going to be all right? Don't get me wrong. I had a happy childhood, but there has been also a little misterious illness when I was in middle school, never diagnosed til I was 17. It was just a case of akward circumstances.
When the neurologist eyes wide open listened to my story asked me: are you not afraid?
I should have said 'I used to be afraid', but kept silence.
My father said I shortened his life that morning. Sorry, dad, it wasn't my intention. Those hugs never came.
Why am I thinking about that now? Because my father has a pretty serious illness affecting his kidneys and I am thinking he could have had to deal with it in his eighties, instead of now, if I didn't take 10 years of his life.

I apologize, I know it's too personal, but I needed it. I couldn't talk about this entire thing with my friends, not with so many details at least. Curious I'm writing it in English, not even my language.

For the record: I feel fine, I have half a pill in the night and I can control very well my problem. :))

Thank you

gigi

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