Kimi Turró - I love you, thank you

I LOVE YOU,

THANK YOU

I LOVE YOU,

THANK YOU

A way to go through the duel

Kimi Turró

TITLE: I love you, thank you. A way to go through the duel

AUTOR: Kimi Turró Abad ©

COMPOSITION: HakaBooks - Garamond body 14

COVER DESIGN: Hakabooks ©

COVER PHOTO: Nicoleta Lupu Agency ©

ILLUSTRATIONS: Kimi Turró Abad ©

2nd EDITION: July 2021

ISBN: 9788412467079

TRANSLATION: Tu voz en mi pluma

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I dedicate this book to the four most important men in my life: Pere, for his kindness and for being the father of my children; David, for all the love I receive from him every day; Quim, for being, besides my son-in-law, my best friend; and Adrià, for being my inspirational angel.

Adrià’s friends

“We’ll always remember you as being the life and soul of the bar. An essential support for us all. We’ll never forget your ‘Woooo’ as you flew down on your bike and went straight to your favourite seat. Or how easily you could make us all smile. And a thousand other things. Thank you for having shared a small part of our life. We will never forget you, Rocky!”

Júlia Blanquera

“From time to time the whole gang went skiing. I’ll always remember those mornings he was waiting for me in the town’s main square with his snowboard and we got the bus together. Whenever we both went, the day was packed with laughter and giggles, those days skiing were different just because he was there.”

Irene González

“I could share so many stories, memories, details, moments, situations. But if I have to get to the most essential, I would say the transparency of your eyes, the naturalness of your being, the sincerity of your smile, the calmness of your behaviour, those hugs full of friendship and respect, the humility of your constant support. So, if I could give you a present, I’d give you the ability to see yourself through my own eyes. Only then will you see how special you were.”

Pol Fresneda

“How I remember that smile of his leaving school each afternoon, flying home and finding him there in his untouchable chair, and all those afternoons chatting along with those goblins of ours who lived in the chimney.”

Tina

“When I get to thinking about Adrià, many memories come to mind and I can’t stop a huge smile from forming on my face. We shared so much when we were teenagers, it’s when you experiment the most and want to take on the world. The bar was where all those mad ideas started. But if I dust down those experiences that really stay with me, it’s when I see a friendship that began when we were little. Endless shared afternoons in the square after school, waiting for our mothers to shut their shops. It was pretty monotonous, but the routine of going to buy bread at Can Carbó and then getting the butcher to make us a sandwich was a great one, and we missed it when we didn’t do it. Playing all afternoon long without a care in the world, that’s how I really remember Adrià! The square was ours, we played and chatted with all the shopkeepers, especially with our ally ‘Brugui’, and we helped the traffic wardens give out parking tickets, even to my mother!

“Remembering is healthy and good, but at the same time I also feel sad and totally impotent now that there’s no going back. But memories, photos and material things help us feel that he’s close and can carry on being a part of our lives.”

Pere Sánchez

Foreword

I met Kimi through a Ho’oponopono healing circle. Although we couldn’t chat for long, she explained that, while she lived in Banyoles and was very busy, she was sure that she wanted to know more about Ho’oponopono and take part in other activities I organised. From that day on, her expressive smile and red hair have been part of my professional life, and, over time, when I got to know her better, part of my soul family.

Kimi is an extraordinary woman, with an immense capacity for love and a contagious happiness that is surprising when you know the painful loss she has suffered. This book is the story of journey from the blackness of mourning, written from the deepest pain of a heart broken by loss to the rebirth of love and the joy of life. It is a hymn to life, friendship and, above all, the humble acceptance of those things that we can’t change, to give ourselves over to the will of what is most holy in us. It is then, with every step we take, that we find those people, opportunities and certainties that lead us to getting back that serenity and inner peace that give our existence a new and deeper meaning.

With great savoir faire, Kimi shows us the steps we have to take to achieve this. She has been able to transform pain into love, she has gone through the long dark night of the soul that the loss of a child means and has woken up to a new life. Facing every day with courage and determination, she has overcome the incredibly difficult challenge of putting a heart that has been broken back together and, despite the pain, living with love, joy and gratitude. Not only has she been able to do this, but she has also written this book in order to share her experience with those who, like her, have gone through the same suffering.

It is an honour for me to form part of this project, and I am sure that it will bring light to those many hearts that live in darkness hoping to find that lighthouse that Kimi shows us, and set out on that journey back to a life that is full of love, joy and gratitude.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Mª Carmen Martínez Tomás

Firstly, I would like to thank you for having bought this book. I speak to you all because I believe that every reader can find a ray of light or something to reflect upon; but the book is mainly aimed at those who have been, or are in, a deep well that seems full of nothing but darkness and suffering. I would humbly like to transmit the idea that, if you want to, you can find the light and the excitement of living life again.