Lusitanianstud (2013)
“With no one or nothing to stop me, within a few weeks of mulling over this idea, I packed up and flew over, taking residence in the old manor house.
My career wasn’t going anywhere, and as for my love life, going away for three months—or a year—would make no difference. Besides, I longed to exorcise Diogo’s ghost from my life once and for all. Why I thought the process would be easier there continues to baffle me to this day, but at the time I truly believed to return to the place where it all ...began was going to help close the wound.
Seven years had elapsed since I’d last seen or heard from him, three since the announcement of his engagement to an Arab princess had made headlines in a Portuguese newspaper. That had been the only news on Diogo in seven years—a newspaper article and my grandma’s information on him having taken a job in Dubai, following his graduation from Oxford business school, the same one he’d been attending when we’d first met.
Certain marriage and fatherhood had followed his engagement to Princess Soraya, I finally accepted that Diogo was irreversibly lost to me.MoreLess
My career wasn’t going anywhere, and as for my love life, going away for three months—or a year—would make no difference. Besides, I longed to exorcise Diogo’s ghost from my life once and for all. Why I thought the process would be easier there continues to baffle me to this day, but at the time I truly believed to return to the place where it all ...began was going to help close the wound.
Seven years had elapsed since I’d last seen or heard from him, three since the announcement of his engagement to an Arab princess had made headlines in a Portuguese newspaper. That had been the only news on Diogo in seven years—a newspaper article and my grandma’s information on him having taken a job in Dubai, following his graduation from Oxford business school, the same one he’d been attending when we’d first met.
Certain marriage and fatherhood had followed his engagement to Princess Soraya, I finally accepted that Diogo was irreversibly lost to me.MoreLess
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