Carlitos Steps Out

Aug 23, 2015

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in Little Epiphanies, Little Epiphanies Archive

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Carlitos was back and his friends were coming up to him to say hello. His guardian angel, the woman of the flowing silver mane, had brought him to the milonga at the Confiteria Ideal where he had been a regular until his illness. He had been hit…

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2 responses to “Carlitos Steps Out”

Marti J. Sladek

August 23, 2015

This made me cry. It was very personal. My husband has Parkinson’s and has also had several heart surgeries. We were off dancing for several months this year and just re-started.This could be us. This is us.
1. KCF
  
  August 23, 2015
  
  Marti: Thank you for this. I think the thing that most impressed me was how Carlitos’s love of the dance still ignited his feeble body. The love of the dance was inside him; his body may not have been able to keep up… but his spirit was connected and ready. It was beautiful. And it was beautiful the way the community of tango was there to receive and caress him.