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A birthday miracle, 1981

April 13, 2015 By Adam Zulawski Leave a Comment

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Marek Zulawski would have been 107 today. Here’s what he was doing exactly 34 years ago...

The day of my 73rd birthday: 13 April 1981.

At precisely 6am, in the small attic room of the Hotel Touring in Chamonix, while you, Maria, were still sleeping, I furtively, like a villain, slipped out of bed and quietly, silently, drew back the curtains. As the window was exposed, I suddenly saw pristine whiteness.

Mount Blanc rose up straight ahead of me, above the highest roofs of the surrounding homes, like an incomprehensible giant, too tall for anyone to even believe it existed.… Keep reading

Filed Under: Memoir Tagged With: 1981, Chamonix, France, Maria Zulawski, Mont Blanc, Wawrzyniec Zulawski

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I run the English section at Culture.pl, and am co-founder of the podcast Stories From The Eastern West. I'm also a freelance writer and Polish-to-English translator. In my spare time, I also run TranslatingMarek.com. Download my free e-book about Poland's capital after it was almost completely destroyed by the Nazis: 'In the Shadow of the Mechanised Apocalypse: Warsaw 1946'

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