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GATHERINGS AND REUNIONS
Sacred Heart Girls' School
“Cor Unum”
Alexandria 1962 – Ostia (Rome), October 2008
Out to the undiscovered ends
There’s nothing worth the wear of winning
But laughter and the love of friends
(Alfred Tennyson)
With great joy and
extraordinary emotions, we have spent the last months preparing our reunion!
Here we are at last – less than what we hoped – all of us so eager to catch
up with years gone by. We said goodbye to each other in 1962, compelled by
incomprehensible events to leave behind us our homes, our friends, our first
loves, all our sweet memories and our special way of living; but still, now that
we have “reached” each other again from the four corners of the world,
it’s as if we had only been away for a little while…..
Ibn
Zaidun is a poet who in the year 1000 AD wrote:
For you are like a fragrance to my soul!
For distance can hardly alter true affection.
I think there’s nothing we should add to this, let us all keep these
things in our hearts as precious treasures that nobody will ever take away from
us.
I wish to thank Anna Serena Leone, Jenny Vafopoulo, Marcellina Mian,
Marlène Keralla, Rina Aloi, Sylvia Kouhi, TeresaLaValle and Sibilla Malacrino
for being here and for having decided that nothing could stop us from meeting. A
special mention to our friends who could not make it to our encounter: Sonia
Rizgallah, Thérèse Abdel Messih, Aurora Pisani, Olfat Gafour, Magda Abou
Youssef, Elham Wahba, Nadia Khoury, Despina Frangoulis, Wilna Buccianti,
Beatrice Van Rossen and Penny
Dorward. Warm thanks to Despina
Petrakis for her kind participation.
In our motto ”One Heart” the memory of our beloved friends who have passed away: Slawka, Ivy and Nicole.
Love.
Eliana
Palermo
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