Caroline Starr Rose

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Adventures in Spain

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Take a friendship fifty-two years strong,

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add in a handful of kids and many visits to and fro,

With the Olabarrias

a year on exchange,

homecoming

a wedding for one girl,

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and now a wedding for the other!

After returning from Spain in January, my mom called to tell me Ines, the daughter of her friend Rosalia (her host sister during a student exchange in the 60’s) was getting married. Ines and I have known each other our whole lives through. Mom wanted to know if I’d be her date to Ines’s March wedding. I was ready to go on the spot.

I hadn’t been to Spain in twenty-six years. Hadn’t seen Ines since my own wedding eighteen years ago.

Mom and I met in Dallas and flew to Bilbao. We took a bus to San Sebastian to see Paula, our exchange student when I was in fourth grade.

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Paula joined us in Bilbao one day.

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On another we went to the Guggenheim.

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These two girls got some time together again.

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There was that wedding (Ines and Christopher are both opera singers. Aren’t they especially glam?).

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My lovely date.

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All the Olabarria kids.

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Because of that friendship made so many years ago, three families are now forever intertwined. How lovely is that?

 

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  1. Linda says

    May 9, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    Very lovely. 🙂

    Reply
    • Caroline says

      May 10, 2014 at 9:01 am

      Thank you, Linda. I had a ball.

      Reply

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