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Three weeks of hard work... and finally the house in the small village of Surice is ready to welcome our new tenants. Each time we refurbish the house, it feels like giving hommage to the person who made this a real home, filled with love and laughter of children not her own. This is the house of Tante Guigui Gabrielle, Francois aunt who devoted her life to Aunt Eleonore after the Germans killed the latters husband and three sons in 1914. Eleonore didnt want to be alone so she hid love letters addressed to Gabrielle, who at the end never got married but spent all her years as the second mother, aunt and grandmother to the seven Hubert children. We bought this house ten years ago when Tante Guigui passed away and nobody else in the family wanted to keep it. But François has a strong bond with the walls, holds vivid memories of happy summers, and keeps an everlasting affection to Tante Guigui. This will probably be the house where we will grow old. When I scrub the floors and paint the doors, I think of how this house has become attached to me. On the last day of renovation, I went to Tante Guiguis former room to have a final check. And suddently, I felt her arms around me.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:55:54 +0000

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