A lettter from Arielle-"About Love, Freedom and Responsibility"

Ryder 2022-01-15 08:02:27

I started working when I was 11.By 25,I could feel the end of my career coming.I tought"what happens now?"what will be my life".I was terrified.And so I made an error of youth.Some of the girls were lucky.They had fallen in love, but not me.Not once.Even though I had been all over the world and I had meet everyone.That spring,I was introduced to Valery.He was then just as he is now.Solid,substantial.And good."The salt of Earth"As American like to say.I felt a great affection for him.A great respect.That is a kind of love.I thought it was the only kind I would ever now.I didn't believe enough.I didn't believe in love.

8 years later,I discovered that I should have.It has stunned me this now happiness, which come out of nowhere.This secret door has opened in me.I have never felt so alive as when I am in your arms.It is temping ,so temping to forget about everything.And just accept this gift.

But I cannot.And not because I didn't believe that you could be marvelous stepfather to Marc and Elodie.And wouderful father to the children we might have had together.Not because of lifestyle or the difference in our ages or the opinion of others.When Valery and I married, we wrote our own vows"I will hold your heart more tenderly than my own"He has always kept his promise and I feel I must keep mine.

But it's more than a matter of honor.One day,Brian,when you have children,you will understand that to leave them is to leave yourself .And to injure them,unthinkable.I told you,I'm an old-fashioned girl .Please do not try to contact me.It will not change evything.I am so sad to say goodbye.To be parted.I can't believe it ,really.

We had so many adventures still ahead of us. Maybe if we had had more time, I would have found something about you I didn't like, really couldn't stand, which would be very useful right now.But I doubt it. They say that no love is perfect.But them,they never met you. I started working when I was 11.By 25,I could feel the end of my career coming.I tought"what happens now?"what will be my life ".I was terrified.And so I made an error of youth.Some of the girls were lucky.They had fallen in love, but not me.Not once.Even though I had been all over the world and I had meet everyone. That spring,I was introduced to Valery.He was then just as he is now.Solid,substantial.And good."The salt of Earth"As American like to say.I felt a great affection for him.A great respect.That is a kind of love.I thought it was the only kind I would ever now.I didn't believe enough.I didn't believe in love.

————Arielle

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  • Osbaldo 2022-03-23 09:03:01

    A very good film for practicing oral English, to what extent is it so good that you want to memorize every line: the very perfect and subtle grammar, the practical grammar of sentences, and the various cultural exchanges in between. Addicting. I really appreciate the attitude towards life mentioned in it. It can be said that I am very envious and yearn for it. Tells an interesting story, and it's a pretty good love textbook until the end.

  • Maribel 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    Seeing the ring revealed by secretly taking off his gloves, he burst into tears. Even though we haven't seen each other for many years, there are others around, and we still have a tacit understanding of love. This kind of love is too beautiful and too cruel.

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  • Brian: Arielle, you're older than I am, you're wiser I'm sure and you've seen much more of the world. And you're beautiful, and elegant, and smart, and funny, and interesting, and you feel like family which is wonderful.

    Arielle: Are you seriously telling me that the "but" is coming at the end of this sentence?

  • Arielle: I'm sad. It was the beginning.

    Brian: Of what?

    Arielle: Belief.