Oh, my. This is kind of... special.

[anghara]

There's a video up at YouTube. It's nothing special as and of itself, just a slide show of family images set to a nice Spanish piece of popular music - pictures of a life - something that a friend might share with a friend in this electronic age in lieu of a postcard or a letter.

But beside it is this comment:

Para mi queridisima Jin-Shei Ana María una amiga del alma que aunque
vive lejos,en Uruguay,la siento cada día más cerca.

I ran that through Babelfish, just to make sure I was getting the sense of it - the translator mangled it in predictable ways, but the gist of it translates as

For my queridisima Jin-Shei Ana Maria a friend of the soul that
although lives far, in Uruguay, I feel every day close more.

There's a real pair of Jin Shei sisters in this world.

One of them lives in Uruguay, for heaven's sakes.

I think I may cry.

(Oh, the video is here, if you really want to go look)

Comments

[guinwhyte.livejournal.com]

If I'm right, queridísima = very beloved.

How wonderful to see that out there.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Or "dearest".

[alexjay.livejournal.com]

I'm extremely jossed to see these happyweep moments coming so fast and furious, especially just when you needed them.

There's more coming, you know ...

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Congratulations...you're immortal now...in a way

[ningerbil.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, how neat! Incidentally, I'm taking an educated guess, but I know "querido" means dear, so I'm guessing queridisima approximates to "dearest."

By the way, have you ever read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan?

[anghara.livejournal.com]

in point of fact, no, I haven't. It came out after "The Secrets of Jin SHei" did, or at least it was much after that when I became aware of its existence - and I know it kind of covers the same ground or at least the same ancient language but hers was straight historical, as I gather, while mine... was not.

[ningerbil.livejournal.com]

Yes, Snow Flower is pretty recent. Was just curious. It's a good story. Fair warning, though, if you ever do read it -- Chapters 2 and 3 deal very graphically with the foot-binding procedure, and are very hard to read. Ugh, what those women did to themselves, it made me squirm!
BTW, just finished The Hidden Queen. Enjoyed it a lot!

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Yes I noticed your write-up [grin] You SO *GOT* Sif and what I was trying to do with him...