I never knew Weronika and only saw her in the family movies<\/p>\n
Which were shot on impossibly hot days on the northern coast<\/p>\n
She wrote to me on a few occasions and once included a postcard of Ostend<\/p>\n
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I was in Ostend last year and spoke to the owner of the library where she had worked<\/p>\n
She stole books and many of them but I forgave her as there was poetry in her soul<\/em><\/p>\n I was given a forwarding address in Seville but this was five years old<\/p>\n If you could try to get a few of my books back please<\/em><\/p>\n She can keep the poetry ones as they meant a lot to her<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Due to the loss of a dear friend in a boating accident I did not go to Seville at the time<\/p>\n But I am planning to go this year to tell her she has a half share in poor Vincent’s house<\/p>\n Whether I will find her or even recognise her is open to question but I will try<\/p>\n If I fail I will place the search in the hands of a professional as I am a busy man<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She is running in and out of the sea with her younger brother Carl they are laughing<\/p>\n Weronika is wearing a pale blue shirt over her bikini and is holding a rainbow<\/p>\n I should have been there but I had just come out of hospital and was fragile<\/p>\n And not able to travel long distances this disappointed me as I needed a holiday<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This movie and a short movie of Vincent’s new swimming pool belong to me<\/p>\n Nostalgia never ages it only become more distant or so I am told<\/p>\n I am not sure if this is true but that is for me to discover in a few short weeks<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I never knew Weronika and only saw her in the family movies Which were shot on impossibly hot days on the northern coast She wrote to me on a few occasions and once included a postcard of Ostend I was in Ostend last year and spoke to the owner of the library where she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}