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<\/p>\nReviewed by Veronika Sykackova. Viewed at Santa Barbara International Festival.<\/p>\n
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What a life full of love, without knowing its beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n Without knowing where I belong.<\/span><\/p>\n A human on this earth. Just\u2026 following hints, following sings, on an elite clue.<\/span><\/p>\n And somehow, you know.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A girl from the city. I came to the countryside.<\/span><\/p>\n Full of people. Full of songs I never knew. Full of country music, laughter, whispers.<\/span><\/p>\n Pretty girls and horses that move like shadows.<\/span><\/p>\n I fell in love. Slowly, carefully. Heart trembling. Feels like home.<\/span><\/p>\n I miss my mum. She\u2019s wishing she\u2019d never see me again. And I chase her anyway, across fields, through sunlight, through storms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n But I met my soulmate. Someone to hug. Someone who feels like home.<\/p>\n Lovers. I never felt seen and touched like that before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We got close. On a ride of the horse, side by side, almost touching. And I never knew how close she was, how she held pieces of me that I didn\u2019t even know existed. <\/span><\/p>\n Like she had something I\u2019d been searching for.<\/span><\/p>\n I wish. Until I don’t.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was looking for my mum. And she was closer than I thought.<\/span><\/p>\n I was looking for love. And I got it all.<\/p>\n I was always strong. I always thought I could go through fire and worse.<\/span><\/p>\n I never thought how lucky I am. I found it all.<\/p>\n I was looking for my family. And now, somehow for a minute, I wish I\u2019d never found them.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was looking for them, but first I had to find something deeper in myself.<\/span><\/p>\n Something that helps me. To forgive. To let go. To understand.<\/span><\/p>\n To touch the sky when the sun was shining, to feel the wind burn my face when it wanted to.<\/span><\/p>\n To get closer when I thought I\u2019d be burned alive by their words, their silence, their absence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But I survived.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Who would ever say, can lovers have the same blood? Can lovers have the same mom?<\/span><\/p>\n Can someone wake me up from this dream? I wish I never come here. To the country side.<\/p>\n Why I needed more? When city made me whole.<\/p>\n The countryside taught me things that the city never could.<\/span><\/p>\n The rivers whispered secrets. The mountains held memories.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Love isn\u2019t always loud. It isn\u2019t always obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n Sometimes it is forgetting people for their mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n Believing they didn\u2019t know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Trust they love you because they remember your birthdate.<\/span><\/p>\n Sometimes love is the quiet courage to forgive yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n Find the piece you’ve been missing. Maybe it was never about my mom.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And maybe, if you watch this story, you\u2019ll survive too.<\/span><\/p>\n You\u2019ll feel it.<\/span><\/p>\n Hard thoughts to swallow.<\/span><\/p>\n When you don’t know where you belong.<\/span><\/p>\n How hard truth sometimes hurts.<\/span><\/p>\n But how strong you become if you do.<\/span><\/p>\n Believe in better tomorrows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In a better world.<\/span><\/p>\n In love. Within the family.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by Veronika Sykackova. Viewed at Santa Barbara International Festival. What a life full of love, without knowing its beginning. Without knowing where I belong. A human on this earth. Just\u2026 following hints, following sings, on an elite clue. And somehow, you know. A girl from the city. I came to the countryside. 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