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In case you’ve never seen an angel before…this is Isabel.
If you haven’t read the story about Isabel’s wonderful generosity and how she totally saved my holiday in Málaga last weekend, you can find it here. Someone asked if I had offered to pay her for taking me to the train station, but I knew she would have never accepted money and so I got her this lovely box of Belgian chocolates while I was away. And it was hard enough getting her to accept those! She kept waving them away and telling me not to be “tonta”. And when I asked if I could take her photo and told her that she was already “famosa” on my blog, she turned to the shop assistant and said, “I just did the tiniest of favours for this girl and she’s making such a big fuss over it!”
The tinest of favours. Yeah right. She only saved my holiday and renewed my faith in human kindness with her very spontaneous act of generosity. No big deal.











and you can tell her from me that when I read that story it brought a tear to my eye. Such generosity of spirit is rare and wonderful indeed. Brava Isabel!
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Curiously, the story doesn’t seem at all unusual to Spanish people (I told Agustín & Guillermo in our classes this past week). They reckon just about anyone would have done the same thing.
Mind you, yesterday I asked if I could queue jump in a busy shop – all I wanted to buy was a little Christmas snowglobe and I had the 1.25 exact change in my hand – and the grumpy couple at the head of the very long queue said no. I’d bet folding money they would never take a stranger to the train station.
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What would we do without our angels, eh? I received the most beautiful Christmas card recently that actually brought a tear to my eye. (p.s. — thank you, sweetie)
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angels are certainly amongst us, and not just at Christmas. 🙂
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You’re very welcome, Anne. But it’s me who is thankful for having so many wonderful people in my life to send cards to this year.
You got that right, woo. 🙂
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