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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461055" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>She of the Heavenly Happiness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No-one knew what subsequently became of her<br>after he went so dramatically, and after all those goings-on.<br>He got all the headlines.<br>The police didn't even bother<br>to take her in for questioning.<br>There was talk of riots, <br>they needed every spare man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the story never quite went away.<br>You know how it is with journalists -<br>we file it away for a rainy day, <br>then it sticks in our mind <br>for when we retire and write a best-seller, I wish...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I doubt we'll ever know the truth of it; <br>but every now and then<br>some nutter with a convincing sighting<br>makes a free gift to journalists<br>with no personal responsibility for us either.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">France, Spain, Italy, gipsy communities -<br>you name it, they know her <br>except she was never there that day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The story among her friends is<br>that she went on a long Mediterranean cruise<br>with two other ladies.<br>Yet there's no account of their returning<br>and there are stories that they all separated<br>and took up new careers in foreign places<br>where they acquired new names, locally<br>so the trail's gone cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But stories like his, and hers, <br>and whether they - well, you know -<br>never quite go away<br>and the part she played <br>though brief, sure was dramatic, so<br>it's made her a role model for those women -<br>and there have been many over the years -<br>whose lives have taken a turn for the worse <br>(no man can know what it's like<br>for a woman to hav e to sell herself) <br>and who see in her story<br>a hope of life's big U-turn<br>and all that we really hope for.<br>God knows we all need one.<br>Could be a Lloyd-Webber musical, <br>come to think of it.<br>After all, she was there<br>at one of the world's big events<br>- that most of the media<br>strangely missed...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maddalena - it's a beautiful name<br>in Italian.<br>And then there's that delicate cake<br>that Proust dipped in his tea.<br>There's a place in Italy<br>where they take her story very seriously, <br>because some local writer<br>turned it into a classic of hope for the socially rejected; <br>a rather 19th century theme.<br>The critics panned it; but does it matter<br>whether it's truth or fiction, <br>if it goes so deep, that it's true in a different sort of way? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's called 'Maddalena of the Heavenly Happiness'; <br>it sounds better in Italian.<br>no, it never got translated into English -<br>it's rather <br>Catholic<br>if you know what I mean.<br>Though it actually took place<br>in the Near East<br>or whatever it was called then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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after he went so dramatically, and after all those goings-on.
He got all the headlines.
The police didn't even bother
to take her in for questioning.
There was talk of riots, 
they needed every spare man..."></div>
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