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The Pine Tree of St. Martin

The Pine Tree of St. Martin

I just received a Christmas Tale from Paulo Coelho and I would like to share it with you. As the parish priest of a little village called St Martin in the French Pyrenees was getting ready to celebrate Mass one Christmas Eve, he began to smell a wonderful fragrance. It was winter, and the flowers had disappeared a long time before, yet there was the pleasant smell of springtime floating through the air. Intrigued, he decided to … Read entire article »

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As I Began To Love Myself, A Poem by Charlie Chaplin

Note: This poem might not be written by Chaplin. On one of the blogs that published this poem I have found this text: Apparently Charlie Chaplin wrote the following poem on his 70th birthday on April 16, 1959. Another one wrote: In sep 18, 2007, I started a research on this text attributed to Chaplin in Brazilian sites and I discovered this: -In 2001, Kim & Alison McMillen published the book “When I loved myself enough” (You can see the book in this site: Amazon.com, you can read some pages online) -In 2003, Iva Sofia G Lima (Brazilian) translated this book into “Quando me amei de verdade”, (Editora Sextante), with the correct credits. -The text “Quando me amei de verdade” started to be attributed to Chaplin by Brazilian or Portuguese speakers “Chaplin fans”, on their blogs, orkut … Read entire article »

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