When my kids were little – and now, in my old age.
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Isabel Allende
b. 1942
Arts and letters
About
Born in Peru, Isabel Allende, 82, worked as a journalist and children’s writer. In 1982, she published her first adult novel, The House of the Spirits, which became an international bestseller. Her titles have been translated into 42 languages, and include a memoir for her daughter, who died at 29. Allende’s accolades include the US presidential medal of freedom and PEN Center lifetime achievement award. Her course, Magical Storytelling, is available on BBC Maestro’s online platform. She lives in California.
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Dependency. Fascism.
Impatience and being bossy.
A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
Hard-working, creative, irreverent.
“You’re a narcissist!” From someone who was a narcissist himself.
To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
The years I lost trying to fix my second marriage.
July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.
I will be dead, why would I care?
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
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