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Embellish Now templates: Now and Then by Traci Reed and Nettio Designs @ SSD / Alphabitties No. 1 by Traci Reed @ SSD / D is for... by Meghan Mullens @ SSD / Proud to Be Canadian by Melissa Bennett @ SSD
Font is DJB Kirsten (no longer available) by Darcy Baldwin @ SSD
Journaling says: 'Everyone says to me that while in Canada I will... feel cold, miss my family, miss my friends, be craving and dreaming to eat the food from my country, be willing to listen to any word spoken in Portuguese any time, search in the TV for any kind of soap opera and when I find I'll not like it, and I don't even watch Brazilian's soap operas now... That I will miss the heat that I can't stand today, that I will miss that Brazilian way of life that I today criticize very much, and many other things. But tonight I realized it. Do you have a best friend? I have Li. There's a love for her in my heart, that's so GREAT, so BIG, I can't even begin to explain it. How we both respect each other, even with all those differences between us and how we like each other even with tastes that are just the opposite from one another, I can't tell. What I know is she taught me so many life lessons, including how to love someone even with different points of view. With her I grew up as a human being. With her I learned to respect and to be respected. To admire and be admired. To trust and to be trustworthy. To give myself. Eliane was a surprise in my life when I REALLY didn't expect anything more from anyone, let alone friendship. But in Canada... In Canada there's no Eliane. And even knowing she will miss me hard, she keeps telling me: 'Go for it, my friend, if that's what you want to do! Be happy!' How can I live without her by my side? '
-TFL-