Anneke · Sarria, May 2017

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• Camino de Santiago, albergue in Sarria · Sarria · Spain 2017 the albergue floor in Sarria

当年的 TA

Anneke · 当时大约 37 岁

A tall Dutch nurse in her late thirties with cropped silver-blonde hair and a bright orange rain cape. She spoke four languages badly and laughed in all of them. She carried a tiny first-aid kit that seemed to hold more than my whole suitcase.

当年的我

The grey-haired Irish woman in borrowed flip-flops, the one who cried quietly into her soup.

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道谢 · 只想把话带到

I was sixty-two, recently widowed, and walking the Camino because my husband had always promised we would. By the second afternoon both of my heels had given up. In the albergue at Sarria you knelt on the stone floor, cleaned my feet, and talked about nothing at all so I would not notice the sting. In the morning you wrapped them again and pressed a roll of tape into my hand. I walked into Santiago nine days later on those feet.

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