Acerca de alondras y ruiseñores

If you would like to read the story from the beginning, click here and start from Part 1 at the bottom of the page. In her long trip to "the America ", Wladyslawa forever left behind the dream of a love that left her an empty soul until the end of her days. Ahead was the love of her life, a kind of real love that makes you put brick by brick with your bare hands, side by side building the dream of owning a house; a love that makes you take turns to generously change smelly diapers; a love that insults you in the morning, refuses to speak to you in the afternoon and forgets everything in the evening; that kind of love that is always there and makes you take it for granted, just like the water flowing from the tap or the light always awaiting behind the switch ... How could you do without such a love? Behind she left a thorn, a needle stuck in the middle of her heart that she could never overcome. The boyfriend of her teenage, associated by everyone in the village to her fut...

Immigrants: migratory birds that have never returned to their places of origin. That's why they wear such a sad look in their eyes. Antonio’s parents had ended up in America in the late 20s as most European immigrants, weary of the crisis in which the First World War had left the countries of Eastern Europe . Animals had been lost because of bombing, starvation, or plundering by passing armies that took with them what was needed to move forward. There were not enough cattle and sheep -sources of food and clothing-, or oxen or horses for work. Whole families worked the land by driving the plow with their bare hands in the absence of draft animals. The mother would usually guide the plow by the handlebars. The iron would open a wound in the earth helped by the work of the father and children of different ages, who would pull, fulfilling the role of the missing working beasts. Little by little, they had started to gradually emerge from the crisis, hunger was becoming a thing of...