Reading
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Reading is an activity I really enjoy. It is something I may do wherever I am and at any time. I read either to get knowledge, to have fun or even to kill time while waiting for doctors and dentists in their waiting rooms.
From this healthy habit I had the opportunity to be in contact with a not very well known Brazilian writer named Lya Luft. She had already written some books when I first read one of them "Perdas e Ganhos" which was a birthday present from my husband. After reading the very first three pages I had the consciousness of her words as they seemed to be popped out of the lines into my mind and heart. They were a kind of secret feelings that I had hidden for ages, not because I had been forbidden to demonstrate, but because I could not find the exact words or acts to decode them. And all of a sudden I found myself reading my own experiences, feelings and testimonials told by someone else who I did not even know, with such a lucidity and beauty that I couldn't help crying. It was not a cry of sadness or fear; instead I had my soul fulfilled with great satisfaction, pleasure and surprise to realise that someone else in the planet shared my ideals, opinions and ideas about life.
It might be funny to mention our ages but, in my point of view, it is something worth telling because although she is in her sixties and I am still in the forties, she is a woman who knows so deeply the female soul that she seems to have all ages mixed inside her...