Hello/ Goodbye

Hello/ Goodbye

Johannesburg Airport
South Africa 
July 2001

We are in the Johannesburg Airport in South Africa.  Our three-week safari is finished which is bittersweet because we are all exhausted, sad but anxious to return to the comforts of our homes.  The flight to Italy is called. Roberto, my new friend from Venice, turns to me as we are parting company. He takes my hand and holds it with both of his hands.  With deep sincerity, in his broken English, he says to me, “And so now Bridget, I must leave you. So I must say hello again.”  

Then he walks off and out of my life.

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