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Dating and Other Shenanigans

Dating and Dictionaries

April 7, 2015January 13, 2017by Veronica Lavil5 Comments on Dating and Dictionaries

If dating and relationships are already difficult, try a language barrier. How do you explain your tastes, likes, dislikes, personality traits, history and make sure you understand theirs as well in a language you feel, at times, completely lost in? How do you make sure that something they said and the tone they said it [...]

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🤍🤍🤍 Sun kissed 💋 🐚 Eight years ago I moved to Paris, France. I can’t believe how fast time has flied and the adventures I lived in that city, and the ones I get to continue to live. Today, I live in Italy but Paris will somehow still feel a bit like home 🤍 These are a few shots I took on my last visit to the city. I always wish I could know the stories that these buildings have been a part of. 💛 Someone please convince me that my life is real. It’s the summer sky for me ❤️‍🔥 It’s the moments when you doubt yourself the most. It’s the loneliness from being away from everything you know… to be honest, I’ve been away for so long now I don’t know what is home. My home has always been on the road. It’s the emotions you hide from others, the late night walks crying because you miss so many people you wish you could hug. It’s the moments when you’re sitting with people you’ve met on all walks of life, in some sort of way, talking about happy memories and the meaning of life. It’s for the small moments you feel so intensely. It’s for the moments. I finally got my residency in Italia. It’s official. Italy will have a hard time getting rid of me. ( 📸 @just_kimg ) Home is wherever you want to make it 🤌🏼 On the eve of my departure, I had a date between the city and I. I drank red wine from a paper cup from the windowsill of my hotel as I’d done on so many evenings from my first apartment to the last. I listened to the people going on about their lives - the neighbor singing, the people on the streets with their aperitifs, the clinking of pots and pans from an open window of someone preparing their dinner… I remembered nights dancing along the sidewalks, “took our broken hearts, put them in a drawer”, of mornings watching the sunrise from Montmartre, remembering the weeks I didn’t know where I would sleep next… and it was then that I realized that I had wanted a date between myself and the 19 year-old wide-eyed child that arrived, excitedly, to the city of her childhood dreams almost 8 years ago. Paris is the place in where I became so many things I never knew I would and could become. It’s a place where I’ve danced, sang, cried and had to rebuild myself. It’s a city that haunts my past but yet shines with her magical lumière. Every time I come here, I become more at peace with her, both the city and the lost woman I was. I’ll always thank them for making me strong 🤍

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