Different Flags by Eugenia Renskoff

Different Flags, a book by Eugenia Renskoff, tells the story of 26-year-old Ani. Ani leaves her comfortable but stifling life in San Francisco to travel to Argentina to comfort her widowed Aunt Esther. Once back in her native country, Ani must face her unexpected feelings of love for Padre Luis, her aunt's young and handsome parish priest. Different Flags is a study of Ani's inner conflict.

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I am a writer, translator and teacher of Spanish and English to foreign students. I have been writing since I was six. I love to express myself through words. I have also traveled widely.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Decision Time

March 26, 1987: I see the writing on the wall. No, Argentina has not really worked out for me. In spite of my Tia, whom I love very much, in spite of the adventure that being here has signified for me, I feel that it is practically over. There is no Plan B, nothing to fall back on. And yet I must make a decision. Something in my circumstances must change because everything else is changing. It has changed and I feel like a fool for not changing with them. Maybe this awareness means a change. Maybe it is part of my transformation and I am still growing up. I am not even trying to think of Luis. He is and always will be important, but he is not here with me. He is not sharing my life and I am not sharing his.

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