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    Emelie, the girl who was never born
    Emelie, the girl who was never born
    Emelie, the girl who was never born
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    Emelie, the girl who was never born

    By Álvaro Puig de Morales

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    Amelie is a girl with a special gift that comes to the life
    of a family to save the sad climate of incommunication and misunderstanding
    between the father and his son. Amelie drags the reader, with her delicacy and her thoughts. It takes him by the hand into the deepest recesses of the soul, that
    same soul that only the most candid look and the naive word of a girl can
    rescue from oblivion and trace back to the wellspring of true love. This
    beautiful story will teach you to "love again". It is a real voyage of exploration to the human soul.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherÁlvaro Puig
    Release dateJul 9, 2018
    ISBN9788494903816
    Emelie, the girl who was never born
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    Álvaro Puig de Morales

    Álvaro Puig de Morales nació en Bilbao en 1932. Máster en Marketing y gestión empresarial - curso de Casos Prácticos ESADE - actualmente es tutor personal y escritor. Títulos: Más allá de las sombras de la muerte, La niña que no nació, Conoce tu verdad, La bondad de un loco, Los silencios de Dios, Mis conversaciones con la ermitaña, Confesiones a Zoé, traducidos al catalán, al inglés, al alemán, al italiano, al francés y al portugués. Atraído por otras disciplinas, posee un amplio conocimiento en lo que implica la psico-sociología en relación con el individuo. Especializándose en el análisis, motivación y concepción de producto, así como en sus posibilidades de mercado; habiendo impartido clases en la Escuela Superior de Marketing. Presidente interino del curso de Alta Dirección de la Escuela de Alta Dirección ESADE, ha dado clases en todas las Cámaras de Comercio nacionales, también como profesor preparador, Administración y Dirección de empresas de la UNED y como Directivo y Consultor en Empresa, Industrial, Publicidad y Comunicación, Construcción, Industria alimentaria, Decoración y Centro comercial.

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      Emelie, the girl who was never born - Álvaro Puig de Morales

      The Girl

      Who Was Never Born

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      © Álvaro Puig – Telephone: 932.035.014

      Barcelona (Spain)

      E-mail: alvaropuigdemorales@gmail.com

      The total or partial reproduction of this work by any

      means, including photocopying and electronic

      processing, is strictly prohibited without the

      permission of the copyright holder and as detailed in

      current legal stipulations.

      I am writing so that God may hear my prayer. I have no other.

      The Author

      Álvaro Puig

      - 1 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      For Amélie

      Álvaro Puig

      - 2 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      Characters:

      Amélie

      Father

      Brother

      Good man

      Wise Man

      Child’s soul

      Desert men

      King

      Space

      Fountain

      Earth

      Injured lamb

      Dog

      Children

      Álvaro Puig

      - 3 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      Add any character whom I may have failed to

      mention.

      The Author

      All characters are fictional, with the exception of Amélie.

      Álvaro Puig

      - 4 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      After what happens here had happened, Paul, Amélie’s father,

      wrote:

      ‘I have loved you and will go on loving you for what you were:

      a daughter.’

      Álvaro Puig

      - 5 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      Álvaro Puig

      - 6 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      What I have said so far may seem strange and perhaps even

      incomprehensible to you, but I can assure you that it is neither

      one thing nor the other. Allow me to explain: it all came about

      when a good man, a stranger to my father, spoke to him of me.

      That good man was aware of the difficulties which my father

      found in ‘feeling’ his son, my brother, because I had not been

      born. That good man was aware of almost everything which

      was happening to my father. Part of it was the tremendous

      difficulty he found in considering himself a father. I must

      confess that my father, besides being a father, was a good man.

      It happened, and went on happening, like this.

      It was a winter’s eve. The cold was biting and, surrounded by

      the cold and some glasses of warm milk, he spoke to my father

      of me. My father listened to something which for him was

      incomprehensible: talk of a daughter he had never had.

      Speaking with my father, the good man said it as though it

      were natural, like anything else: that my father, thankfully, had

      a daughter. My father listened and withheld his emotion, as

      Álvaro Puig

      - 7 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      though what he was saying could be real, as real as my father’s

      own life could be. That reality led him to an emotion which he

      withheld. His eyes held back the tears which he did not want

      the good man to see. He had drunk the glass of milk, and he

      asked for another.

      I was never born, for my father, or some other man, had never

      thought of me. But the good man of whom I speak had. As he

      spoke to my father, he ‘conceived’ me so that my father could

      ‘lean’ on me, so that the difficulty which he found in

      perceiving my ‘brother’ could be peacefully and joyfully eased,

      thus reducing my father’s sense of distance from him. My

      father did not know the whys and wherefores of what was

      happening. The good man who conceived me could have

      explained it and helped him to understand why he had such a

      relationship with his son. But he did not do so, for it would

      have done little good.

      One day, I shall tell you of my friend who dreamt of imagining

      that my father had had another child—a daughter—and why,

      although he had never thought of her, I was born.

      I knew that I could help him. The difficulty of being or

      considering oneself a father would be shared by a daughter as

      Álvaro Puig

      - 8 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      well as his son. I shall always be thankful that my friend

      thought of me. I, who was going from one place to another,

      resting in space, with no-one to love or need me… If only you

      knew how miserable it is! It is heartbreaking. My only comfort

      is that, although I am not beautiful, I am not ugly either: I

      heard it from the cold morning air.

      Men should breathe fatherhood with that ease with which the

      mountain greets the dawn of each new day. My father does not

      know of that. It is fortunate that my friend intended that I

      should be born. That was why my father had a chance to

      consider himself a father for the ‘first’ and second time.

      I do not know if my friend was successful. But, in any case,

      after having come down from space to the Earth, I now think

      that I am in my father’s home. He has not yet got used to the

      idea of what the good man told him. But my brother certainly

      ‘is’ more receptive. My father looks more affectionately upon

      my brother. And I think that, as he has been given a daughter,

      he will have to give each one of his children the same or

      similar affection. What I can tell you, and this will surprise you

      all, is that my father made the good man’s dream his own. I

      still have no place in my brother’s home, but I shall give it

      time. And yet I am with my people, despite not having been

      Álvaro Puig

      - 9 -

      The Girl Who Was Never Born

      born. I am where

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