It’s been over a year since the last time I wrote anything. The writing gift kind of just vanished; the willingness to open the word processor and typing away wasn’t there anymore. And it’s not been the lack of things occurring to and around me. The total opposite, I would say. Yet, every time I have thought about catching you up with Eduardo’s convoluted life, I simply collapse. Mentally. Spiritually.
Has it ever happened to you that you briefly run into an old friend, who you haven’t met in a long time, and you just don’t know what to say? How do you catch them up with everything? What events or stories do you share that will, somewhat, make you feel that they more less know what’s been up with you? That’s how I feel right now.
I left Denmark at the end of February 2025. Literally a full decade after I left Chile to move to Europe. And it had been such a long time, that I was in disbelief. “Is this really happening?” I would go in my head, constantly. And the gods sent me a person to keep me sane, among this debacle. Her name was Sofía; a plump, short, buzzcut tomboy of an Argentinean chef who I met through a dating app. The sex was great, but what was better was the way in which she helped me get my shit together. She didn’t sell my apartment for me nor took over any of the fucking bureaucracy required for me to leave the fuck out of Copenhagen. But she was there, nagging me about getting rid of the stuff I wasn’t gonna bring along. Helping me pack. Or just sleeping with me, waking up with a shitty attitude that just drew me more and more to her. Because I quickly learned that under that thick skin and stoic persona, she was deeply sensitive and caring. And I just got to enjoy that for a month, before I inevitably boarded my Air France flight back home. “If I wasn’t leaving, I would date the shit out of you,” I told her, in the end, while she was smoking her after sex cigarette, sitting on my kitchen’s window frame. “But you are leaving,” she said. Always a cynical realist, as she was. As I miss her, still to this day.
And that’s it for now. A little sample of what I will be bringing to the table the following months. Getting you up to speed. A tad at a time.